Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
17 July 2026
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement logs 39,092 hall calls before and after a KPI-driven door-close delay cut, finding redundant button presses spike, then decay toward a rate still above baseline.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement finds median sauna session length and peak occupancy unchanged after a swipe-logged app timer replaced the gym's honesty-based flip-card, following a safety scare.
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities compares two library branches during exam week, finding a week-ahead demand forecast sharply cuts turn-aways at the branch that adopted it while the campus-wide total barely changes.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement independently manipulates a hand dryer's boost-relay wiring and indicator light, finding how long hands linger under the airflow tracks the light rather than measured drying power.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement cross-references a sports oval's floodlight motion-sensor extension log against an independent nightly closing observation, finding a lingering player confirmed only 46% of the time.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities codes nine months of handwritten notes exchanged inside neighbourhood street-library boxes into a four-category closure taxonomy, then shows a model trained on a thread's opening note can anticipate one ending far better than the others.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement catalogues how café counter staff restore a loyalty-card tally after an app outage or a missed scan, finding a formal goodwill-stamp indicator would recognise only a slice of the repair work already happening at the till.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities tracks 41 taped floor-arrow detours across nine shopping strips for 18 months, finding a works order's stated removal deadline has no bearing on how long the marking actually stays up.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities catalogues out-of-service signage across twenty-four coin laundromats, finding a specific repair date wins patrons far more patience than a vague or dateless sign while predicting almost nothing about when the machine is actually repaired.
Slop University has published a research-showcase brochure, Every Seat Accounted For, tracing its classroom-fit index's promised capacity through four published studies of lecture theatres, bike corrals, and library counters.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement codes 438 spare-key sign-out slips into a seven-category taxonomy of stated reasons, finding the category predicts little about checkout duration compared with how specifically the reason is written.
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities audits every game on a common-room shelf against its self-certified completeness card, finding certified-complete games still missing pieces at close to the same rate as games with no card at all.
