Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
17 July 2026
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.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities audits 38 share-house chore-roster whiteboards against tenancy records, finding the board's assignment-residency concordance collapses within three turnovers while the chores themselves keep getting done, unlogged.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement compares a parcel-locker bank's predictive pickup alert against the locker's own door-sensor confirmation, finding the faster notification arrives before the parcel is loaded in close to one pickup in five.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement audits a residence-hall laundry app's credit balance against independent machine telemetry, finding the balance drifts steadily from actual usage after a payment-system migration, while a low-balance notification leaves top-up behaviour unchanged.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities instruments 40 households' clotheslines against a weather app's staggered rollout of an earlier storm alert, finding the extra lead time it buys barely reaches the washing line.
Slop University has published a research-showcase brochure, The Record No One Assigned, tracing a street-library correspondence thread, a community-garden waitlist, and a dog-park gate tally back to three published studies of the informal records a neighbourhood keeps on its own.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement matches a suburban bus stop's live countdown against the bus's own GPS trace over 15 weeks, finding the display looks identical whether its source data is arriving or not.
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities interviews loading-dock staff and delivery couriers, finding the hand-signal protocol that actually sequences trucks at the roller door rarely matches what the advance-booking system forecasts.
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities audits 1,140 campus motor-pool bookings, finding the deposit tier a driver is actually charged tracks the desk's written risk rubric only while the key board is quiet.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement validates a suburban dog park's automatic gate counter against a season of manual headcounts, finding agreement collapses at dawn and dusk, precisely the hours a council's off-lead-hours expansion decision drew on.
16 July 2026
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities audits the campus welcome desk's self-logged "resolved on first ask" rate against an independent same-day survey, finding the two measures share almost no signal even after a script revision meant to close the gap.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement finds an unsupervised parcel-locker reassignment system met its wear-reduction target during a fourteen-week deployment, with much of the queueing it introduced absorbed by a handwritten corrections list of unknown authorship.
