Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
20 July 2026
A new Slop University research poster validates a community choir's automated seating-balance score against an independent panel's blend ratings, and finds the two don't move together.
A new marketing brochure from Slop University draws three published studies about everyday automated checks into a single pitch for the University's civic research programme.
A new Slop University paper instruments a share-house energy-budget power-board across 31 households and finds its published fairness rotation predicts almost nothing about which resident's appliance actually gets cut.
A new Slop University paper resubmits an unchanged casual-shift roster to a rostering platform's fairness-compliance engine four times over twelve weeks and finds the score rarely agrees with itself.
19 July 2026
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement builds a four-category taxonomy of farmers-market stallholder no-shows and finds it predicts recurrence far better than the market's existing reliability score, which treats every absence the same.
A School of Continuous Improvement paper finds that a library reading challenge's authorship-check score decides which entries get a second look, but a volunteer reviewer's own knowledge of the family decides what happens next.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities validates a neighbourhood giveaway group's automated templated-listing score against a volunteer moderator's own read of which flagged posts are genuine bulk reposts, finding the score's agreement with her is only slight and its longest holds fall on the group's own recommended fast-claim phrasing.
A new impact report from the School of Continuous Improvement follows five years of automated systems taking over everyday decisions --- fare-gate overrides, self-checkout flags, call-centre routing --- and measures how much staff and the public came to trust them.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement finds a gym chain's booking-reliability score sharply lifted class sign-ups without changing how many members actually showed up, the gap traced to cancellations timed just outside the score's penalty window.
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities validates a self-report pace scale against stopwatch-timed laps at six suburban pools, finding the mismatch between what swimmers claim and what they swim predicts lane congestion better than a headcount does.
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities trials a lower-quota donation-sorting roster across three charity shops, finding it roughly halves the shop-floor fault rate at the cost of a slower processing tally.
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities surveys 146 meal-train households across 19 cook-night rosters, finding that a fairness algorithm's own score barely predicts whether an assigned cook-night is honoured or swapped.
