Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
16 July 2026
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities codes eighteen months of marginal annotations on a shared-office pot-plant watering roster into a six-category taxonomy, finding some phrasings recur every eight days while others fade with each roster relaunch.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement finds the Library's book-swap shelf turning over books at a steady clip even as its QR circulation tracker's own count collapses across a term, undermining the figures a pending utilisation review has cited.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement compares wait times for a free washer before and after a residence-hall laundry-booking cap, finding the cap's benefit largely disappears in halls that also absorbed this year's larger move-in cohort.
The Anticipatory Capability Fund awards Dr Fenna Okoro and Professor Verity Marris a grant to trigger the Oval's sunscreen-dispenser restocking from next-day heat forecasts rather than the empty-bottle reports that currently prompt it.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement interviews campus bike users and a contracted technician about locating a working self-service repair station, finding the University's own station directory has listed two removed stations for two years.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities finds a desk's arrival-time regularity forecasts next week's tidiness-sweep failure better than Facilities' existing hours-logged risk score.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement finds a shared AV-cart usage logger's raw ping count entering Facilities' capital-planning minutes within three weeks of deployment, even as the logger's own booking-match rate fell across the ten-week pilot.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement matches a term of dining-hall till tallies against the promised forty-dish rotation, finding three dishes absorb most of the demand and eleven are never rung.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities finds community-garden volunteers' own harvest-weight guesses drifting toward the toolshed scale's digital display, converging just as tightly in the weeks the display is later found miscalibrated.
Slop University has published a research-showcase brochure, The Check Behind the Tick, tying four published studies to its habit of checking a declaration or a log against what actually happened.
15 July 2026
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities interviews 28 campus radio presenters about how they actually got an on-air slot, finding most credit a favour rather than the sign-up sheet's own written order.
Slop University has published a brochure, Make Your Wait Count, tying its growing network of service-counter screens to published work on queues, attention, and the informal signals that claim a shared space.
