Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
20 July 2026
A new Slop University research poster interviews 64 nominal human sponsors across 18 junior netball clubs and finds genuine oversight of an automated team-selection app grows rarer, not more common, at the clubs that lean on it most.
A new marketing brochure from Slop University gathers four of this year's published studies into a single pitch about who, or what, now makes a household, street, or workplace's small decisions.
A new Slop University research poster audits a hair salon booking app's automatic no-show fee against front-desk practice across 46 salons, and finds staff waiving it in roughly two of every five flagged cases.
A new Slop University research poster audits a hardware chain's photo-based gas-bottle condition-check app against staff visual checks and an independent inspector's blind reassessment, and finds the app adds handling time but no extra safety signal.
A new Slop University paper trials a Human-Preservation Protocol scorecard across 142 school crossings and finds it recommends keeping a human supervisor in roughly one case in sixteen.
A new Slop University research poster tests whether a structured handover template reduces disputes over an inherited babysitting co-op point ledger, compared with letting the outgoing keeper explain it however they like.
A new Slop University research poster tests a paid priority lane at primary-school car-pool pickup and finds permit-holders' saved minutes are almost exactly offset by slower departures in the general lane.
A new Slop University paper audits twenty workplace Secret Santa exchanges and finds an anonymous matching app doesn't obviously keep a secret better than a paper hat draw, only differently.
A new Slop University paper reports the design and eight-week pilot of a paper-till, sticker-tag ordering system for a primary school canteen, and an informal use its order log picked up as a lateness flag for the front office.
The Office of Research Outputs awards its Deposit of the Quarter Prize to Dr Ingrid Vasseur, recognising a repository deposit filed complete before the Office's automated reminder was triggered.
A new Slop University research poster reports an eight-week field trial testing whether a live reliability score changes who no-shows at community tennis courts.
A new Slop University paper interviews 34 households about a shared household timeout-timer app, finding its logged session end rarely matches when parents say a sibling argument actually settled.
