Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
15 September 2026
A new Slop University marketing poster puts Senior Lecturer Thandiwe Solberg's four-kind taxonomy of post-laundry odd socks on the University's bus-stop and campus-screen rotation, sorting what a wash cycle leaves unmatched into kept, mended, or binned, with no appeal once a sock is assigned its kind.
A new Slop University research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement sorts compliance-training completions into a four-cell PASS quadrant, and ties a manager's coaching-conversation quota to worst-cell headcount rather than to how many reports pass.
A new Slop University research poster finds that halving a licensing authority's public-notice period changes neither objection volume nor post-approval noise complaints, and reports the Authority's decision to fix the shorter window as its sole statewide protocol.
A new Slop University research poster reports a year of sensor-verified acoustic partitions across a franchise's open-plan back offices producing no detectable change in performance-review ratings, and the specification becoming the mandatory fit-out standard regardless.
A new Slop University paper finds that an office-restack finding linking crate-opening order to project priority does not reproduce on 58 households' house-move boxes, and reports the School's decision to require a priority audit on partnered removals regardless.
A new Slop University paper from the School of Continuous Improvement finds a retail chain's neutral survey responses cluster suspiciously just under the threshold that decides a branch's eligibility for the chain's next expansion round.
A new Slop University marketing poster builds a Master of Applied Measurement recruitment campaign around a council footpath-crack severity taxonomy, where the assigned kind, not the crack itself, decides what gets queued for repair.
A new Slop University paper reports a sixteen-week pilot of RampCheck, a phone-mounted rangefinder application that cuts kerb-ramp audit time and automatically delists bus stops that fail three consecutive accessibility sweeps.
The University's Strategic Plan 2026-2031 introduces the Autonomy Ledger, a four-cell record crossing who asked for a shift against what they were given, applied to the University's own rosters and licensed to accredited partners.
A new Slop University paper attempts to reproduce, on ordinary community apps, a capture effect first observed in a strip-mall till-variance index, finding no anticipatory change in reply speed across 58 platforms, and reports the School's decision to roll the index out anyway.
A new Slop University paper finds a suburban radio club's fifteen-year-old pass mark predicts what members report about their own airtime far better than it predicts what the club's repeater actually hears, and the club continues to tie permanent duty exemption to the mark regardless.
A new Slop University marketing poster stages Lecturer Solveig Adeyemi beside the library bike racks, promoting her finding that their morning fullness predicts nothing about that day's study-room bookings, reported plainly as null.
