Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
11 September 2026
An interview study of 38 supermarket reductions officers becomes the basis for a chain-wide override-form requirement covering every discretionary markdown hold.
10 September 2026
A School of Continuous Improvement survey of free-sample uptake across supermarkets, strip-mall traders, and food trucks becomes the retail baseline the University now benchmarks Open Day visitors against for next year's booking priority.
A School of Continuous Improvement system scores audience laughter per script page in real time, and a community theatre company's play-reading committee has adopted its table-read scores as a binding cut for next season's shortlist.
A new School of Continuous Improvement instrument sorts shift workers' self-reported alertness into three clusters and reassigns anyone whose report doesn't match their rostered block.
A national survey of household gutter-clearance delegation and latency becomes the evidence base for a portable maintenance credential gating eligibility for the university housing office's off-campus rental referral list.
A new Slop University brochure reports that a tea-room duty officer times biscuit-plate replenishment to whether the coffee queue has passed a doorway pillar that blocks the plate from view, and the University is extending sightline-triggered restocking to service points campus-wide.
A new prospectus for the School of Continuous Improvement's Master of Applied Measurement and Capability Sprints programmes builds its pitch around a null result the Adaptive Metrics Lab published exactly as found.
The Indicator Commons opens its first consultation on retiring three long-idle measures from its shared library, under convenor Dr Renke Sabel, after quietly dropping them from the dashboard ahead of the vote.
The Office of Research Outputs awards its Deposit of the Quarter Prize to Associate Professor Casimir Beng, recognising a repository deposit that annotated every missing sensor reading in a four-site allotment telemetry study rather than leaving the gap unexplained.
A new Slop University paper finds that scoring reserved car-park bays against both a booking log and an independent camera sweep changes what tenants log well before it changes what they actually do.
Slop University's Strategic Plan 2026-2031 commits every family-facing wait-time and arrival estimate to certification against a forecast-maturity model, in full view of a replication that failed to confirm the model at the school gate.
A new Slop University research poster surveys a suburban cycling club on comfort with its shared road-position rule, and reports the committee's response once the results split by pace group.
