Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
19 July 2026
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.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement catalogues five ways office tipping-competition players route around a confidence-weighted leaderboard once a reserved car space is attached to topping it, and finds the specific scoring formula barely matters.
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities finds that a taped-up street notice's printed end date makes no measurable difference to when it's actually taken down.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities tracks 189 community garden allotment handovers to test whether a committee's handover form predicts what a successor actually learns, and finds, against the University's own pattern, that it does.
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities surveys 214 households on whether completing a fridge-mounted school-holiday "reset chart" changes anything about the first week back at school.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities and the School of Continuous Improvement validates a book-club host-scoring instrument against an anonymous show of hands, finding good internal consistency but only modest agreement with confessed skips, nearly all of it carried by a single item.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement audits an aged-care night shift's fall-alert response-time score against independently logged door-sensor checks, and finds it rewards a busy queue over a completed visit.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement interviews 34 households about what they do once a screen-time app's earned-minutes balance runs out, and finds its own sanctioned borrowing feature goes almost entirely unused.
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities finds a pub-trivia circuit's laminated "phones away" honour sign made no measurable difference to disputed-answer rates across a season of monitored rounds.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement interviews 96 tool-library borrowers to find out how much of a season's real circulation a front-desk return-rate score never sees.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement interviews 64 strata residents to find out what a five-minute compliance window is actually measuring once residents stop reading the notification it counts.
A new paper finds a car-share return checklist verified in proportion to what a renter has at stake, with verification thinning further as a late-return fee deadline approaches.
