Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
18 July 2026
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities surveys 193 body-corporate chairs whose precautionary rule reached its own twelve-month review, finding most rules continued with no motion recorded and few chairs could name any evidence considered beforehand.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement interviews 32 rideshare riders about how they relate to the app's upfront fare estimate once it has run high, finding their coping habits hold steady even after being told the quoted price is informational only.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement surveys 47 show-society produce judges across one season, finding a sealed pre-scoring hunch predicts the finished scoresheet closely, and that requiring every rubric column doesn't change how often the two agree.
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities codes a season of handwritten notes left on a community fridge, finding a note's category predicts how quickly it draws a volunteer restock.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement audits 214 hard-rubbish piles across 11 suburbs, finding overnight removal's share of a council's diversion figure climbs from 42% to 81% across nine months while the figure itself barely moves.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement tracks 812 logged grill turns across 16 apartment-complex courtyards, finding a sign-up booking board introduced partway through the study left grill order and wait time unchanged from the walk-up baseline.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement tracks 612 children across 26 primary classrooms through a platform-wide clip-chart threshold reset, finding clip movements jumped immediately while the incident notes sent home did not move at all.
Futures in Committee, the School of Emergent Priorities' seminar series, turns this teaching period to the Horizon Register's own admissions and retirements, with Dr Fenna Okoro presenting.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities interviews 34 households about their phones-in-the-basket dinner rule, finding most have drifted from the version they'd recite to a visitor without either party marking the change.
A blind audit of a warehouse handheld scanner's live confidence score finds it predicts a picker's time since retraining far better than it predicts their actual errors.
Slop University has published a research-showcase brochure, The Watch Changes Hands, tracing a pool's drowning alarm, a dog park's compliance sign, and a council's hard-rubbish tally through three published studies of what changes once an instrument takes over the watching.
17 July 2026
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement classifies queue-jumping disputes across paper-ticket, app-queue, and no-system deli and butcher counters, finding formal systems relocate conflict rather than reduce it.
