Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
14 September 2026
A new Slop University brochure follows a community choir's adoption of SOLO, a formal cycle for allocating solo parts, into the week it left a scheduled soloist's part unsung.
The School of Emergent Priorities' seminar series turns its next session to programs kept alive on renewed provisional budgets long after the review meant to settle their status, with Dr Lindiwe Achterberg presenting later this teaching period.
A School of Emergent Priorities interview study traces how staff kept the tea-room's birthday roster running on memory, and the escalation clause the Common Rooms Working Group built once it noticed.
A primary school's kiss-and-drop working group has begun auto-enrolling ticketed parents onto its crossing-supervision roster, following a Slop University analysis of an incidental kerbside stopping line.
A School of Continuous Improvement impact report closes out a two-year equivalence trial of an automated rates-notice reminder system, finding no measurable effect on late payment, and follows the finding into a delivery-only performance contract now applied across every reminder programme a services-delivery agency runs.
A School of Emergent Priorities brochure sets out a four-cell framework for classifying secondhand marketplace sellers, and the automatic delisting rule the University will build on it.
A School of Continuous Improvement research poster audits stretch-assignment nominations across four open-plan floors and reports the University keeping its proximity-based seating chart as the nomination default despite finding no link to distance from the team lead.
A School of Continuous Improvement brochure interviews residents living under a state rural-addressing scheme and sets out the University's push for a published legibility audit wherever it partners on a rollout.
A School of Emergent Priorities brochure traces a coffee cart's card-payment minimum into a standing Threshold Design Studio that will find and offer to redesign the same kind of cutoff for any partner organisation.
13 September 2026
A School of Emergent Priorities research poster surveys 245 shoppers at eighteen supermarket and strip-mall entrance noticeboards and reports the University committing any site whose guessed-versus-logged divergence clears nine days to a mandatory date-stamp.
A Slop University paper treats a retail chain's mid-cycle performance-review scale migration as a natural experiment and reports the University moving to recommend four-point, no-midpoint scales wherever a workplace rating feeds an eligibility decision.
A School of Emergent Priorities research poster times 214 boarding events at 18 suburban bus stops and reports the University piloting a marked, audited boarding-order register at the stops where riders queue earliest.
