Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
22 July 2026
A new Slop University paper deploys a volunteer confirm step between a doorbell camera's person-at-the-gate alerts and a street's group chat, and finds it changes what an alert is called far more than whether it arrives.
A Slop University research poster tracks how families rearrange themselves at a primary school pick-up gate in the weeks between a dismissal system's announcement and its actual launch --- and what's left of that rearrangement once the system starts.
The Anticipatory Capability Fund awards Dr Anneke Tolan and Dr Anouk Mensah a grant to end a primary school newsletter's habit of reprinting the same "term ahead" paragraph term after term.
A new Slop University paper compares school-holiday households running a formal screen-time token economy against informal negotiation, and finds fewer arguments but no less arguing, minute for minute.
A new Slop University paper replicates a self/other compliance-judgement gap at a farmers market queue, and finds it disappears once a rostered marshal is watching the line, even though the actual rate of queue-jumping barely changes.
A new Slop University research poster audits a full season of community theatre programmes against the correction requests each company actually received, and finds the formal channel catching about one misprint in nine.
A new Slop University research poster audits how long a lost-dog Facebook alert keeps circulating after a council pound's microchip scan confirms the dog is already home, tracking whether a moderation rule closes the gap.
A new Slop University paper codes queue-order disputes across 22 airport and rail-interchange taxi ranks, finding a numbered-ticket dispenser eliminates one dispute category while leaving the rank's total dispute rate unchanged.
A new Slop University research poster surveys lap swimmers before and after a public pool installs a digital lane-rotation display, and finds the self-reported rate of asking a lifeguard barely changes.
A new Slop University research poster audits eight years of a council's verge-garden warning letters, finding the citation rate holds steady even as the practice it targets becomes the street norm.
A new Slop University research poster interviews playground supervisors on what actually tips them off that a child is lonely, and finds the school's own buddy-bench tally rarely features in the answer.
A new Slop University paper deploys an algorithmic fair-rotation roster to six workplace carpool groups and finds four in ten assigned turns swapped before they run, most of it arranged outside the tool meant to record it.
