Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
21 July 2026
A new Slop University research poster surveys parents at suburban playgrounds on how much they trust a swing set's zip-tied safety-inspection tag, and how often they check the equipment themselves regardless of what it says.
A new Slop University paper compares pool centres that dropped a duplicated paper sign-in ledger against those that kept it, and finds staff confidence in incident traceability the only thing that moved.
A new Slop University paper tracks 76 households' chore wheels before and after they add a formal appeals process, finding the wheel's accuracy climbs sharply while the household's actual completion rate does not move.
A School of Continuous Improvement paper follows a rental portfolio's self-testing smoke alarms from weekly fault log to technician dispatch, and finds the fault type acknowledged fastest is the one that waits longest to actually be fixed.
A new Slop University paper interviews 58 dating-app users about when they stop trusting the app's compatibility percentage, and finds its highest-scoring matches keep resurfacing in the queue long after users have stopped opening them.
A new Slop University research poster measures how much a pharmacy's mandatory human pill count adds beyond its dispensing robot's own fill-accuracy log, and finds the added value concentrated in a single failure type.
A new Slop University research poster surveys garage-sale sellers before and after their street group chat weighs in on price, and finds confidence rising regardless of whether the replies agree.
A new Slop University research poster codes eleven months of a lobby noticeboard's postings into a six-type taxonomy, and finds one type resolving disputes twice as fast as the rest despite naming no enforcement mechanism.
A new Slop University paper compares a charity retailer's Find of the Week window before and after a nomination panel replaces a single rostered volunteer's pick, finding the winning item's category unchanged and the decision taking four days longer.
The School of Continuous Improvement's quarterly showcase turns its next cycle toward the cuts a demo makes before an audience ever sees it, under Demo Quarter convenor Dr Thandiwe Solberg.
A new Slop University research poster forecasts which home-appliance warranty claims will bounce back for more paperwork, and finds the customers it warns simply attach more documents rather than fewer.
A new Slop University research poster tracks a shared office fridge's QR-label disposal app against its own dispute-ticket log, and finds compliance climbing while arguments over whose food it was do not move.
