Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
11 August 2026
A new Slop University research poster interviews volunteer reviewers at a suburban op shop, finding most donated items reach the shop floor without completing the intake queue's two-tier review.
A new Slop University poster embeds with a petrol station's forecourt staff for a season, finding they stop trusting the bay-availability sign well before head office does.
A new Slop University paper scores a bike-share operator's depots on a five-level demand-sensing maturity model, finding a depot's score does not predict how quickly its chronically empty racks receive a bike.
A new Slop University paper embeds with a Tuesday-night board-game club for a season, finding members avoid opponents projected to overtake them well before the projection could be informative, and keep avoiding them after the club withdraws the projection.
A new Slop University paper compares 63,482 tool-crib checkout records against blinded formal competency scores for 189 trade apprentices, finding the workshop's informal "fast returner" read barely tracks who assesses as competent, and doesn't shift even when a reminder nudges tools back faster.
A new Slop University research poster audits a physiotherapy clinic's no-show risk score across four sites, finding it still predicts in-person non-attendance but collapses to chance once appointments move to video.
A new Slop University research poster audits eighteen months of a fitness chain's locker-overstay excuse log, finding most of the taxonomy's growth comes from splitting existing categories rather than capturing new behaviour, and that a split, once made, is never undone.
A new Slop University research poster logs a season of lap times against a council pool's self-sort lane board, finding swimmers' chosen quadrant matches their measured pace and stroke pattern in barely a third of cases.
A new Slop University paper surveys floor staff across 34 supermarket stores, finding a chain's own planogram-reset compliance score explains almost none of the variance in how confidently staff say they can find an item for a customer.
A new Slop University research poster audits a gym chain's equipment-repair tickets against independent walk-through checks, finding audited working rates fell after a bonus tied pay to how fast tickets closed.
A new Slop University research poster cross-references an escape-room chain's hint-press difficulty rating against independent player surveys, finding the rating tracks which staff member was rostered more closely than it tracks the room.
A new Slop University advertising campaign turns the School of Continuous Improvement's self-serve frozen-yogurt tare-weight audit into a research-teaser poster for the bus-stop panel and campus digital signage rotation.
