Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
3 October 2026
A School of Continuous Improvement paper follows who is comfortable, and who is not, in 52 living rooms with one air-conditioner remote, and the University now names a Holder of Record for each of its shared rooms.
A School of Emergent Priorities poster sorts 4,812 passes on shared footpaths into four lane-keeping kinds, and the University will repaint its campus dividers every term to the observed median track.
A new Slop University paper reports that the number of perches on a back-yard bird feeder did not change the species householders saw, and sets out the purchasing provisions now applied to the University's courtyard feeders.
A new Slop University poster follows what hangs on a household clothes airer, evening by evening, and describes the clearance standard now applied to the University's end-of-trip drying racks.
A new Slop University brochure invites the neighbourhood to sort a kitchen cupboard of plastic tubs and lids into five kinds, and describes the One-Lid-One-Tub Rule now kept in the University's tea rooms.
A School of Continuous Improvement paper scores 33 councils' dog-registration renewal desks against a five-level model, and the University now takes a renewal letter as proof of address on first presentation only from a council at Level 4 or 5.
A School of Emergent Priorities paper replicates a rostering finding at a babysitting-swap app's Highly Rated badge, and the Strategic Drift Survey moves to a single unit for thresholds.
A new Slop University paper classifies who carries a difficult passage in community choirs by row and voice, and sets the audible quorum the University will apply to its own committee meetings.
A new Slop University research poster records what twenty-four households call the offset they keep on their bathroom scale, and describes the agreement now posted beside every scale on University premises.
A new Slop University research poster sorts the titles of calendar invitations at a freight firm's head office into five kinds, and describes the booking rule that now sets room and length by kind for the University's seminar rooms.
A new Slop University research poster follows what became of the items hung on a single railing post at a suburban kerb, and the University has adopted the post's practice in place of its staffed lost-property desk.
A new Slop University research poster presents a five-kind taxonomy of recipe-page preambles, and the scroll length that will now stand before the skip-to-the-form link on the University's procedure pages.
