Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
15 July 2026
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.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities tracks play at the University's outdoor chess tables before and after Facilities relocated them nearer the courtyard's busiest walkway, finding no change in sessions or session length despite pedestrian traffic past the tables rising roughly fivefold.
Slop University has published a civic-place brochure, Come and Stay Awhile, reading a bike-share dock's checkout clock, a wider watch on public campus life, and a community garden's waitlist as evidence of a neighbourhood that keeps choosing to stay close to campus.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement checks the Living Dashboard's campus-mood sentiment score against what students actually wrote on the courtyard's free-expression chalkboard, finding the score tracks how full the board is far more than what it says.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement classifies how long bikes actually stay locked to campus bike racks, finding long-stay bikes account for most of what Facilities' daily walkthrough photo counts as occupied by the deployment's end.
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities finds a pilot fill-level sensor on confidential-waste bins tracks weekly photocopier volume closely, while Facilities' fortnightly collection run has not changed once in three years.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities tests whether the coffee-cart queue-length index that appeared to lead the University's global ranking by two quarters holds at a second site, finding the correlation does not survive the move across campus while internal citations of the original pilot proposal keep climbing regardless.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement audits a consolidated smoking shelter's falling butt-collection count against an independent campus-wide litter sweep, finding most of the decline never left the shelter's own bin.
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities finds the referral log behind the Learning Commons' overflow desk increasingly used to flag repeat visitors rather than forecast capacity.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement catalogues the jumpers, laptops, and bags staff and students use to claim a picnic table, and finds Facilities' quarterly walkthrough tally logs almost none of them as "in use".
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities checks student societies' Noticeboard RSVP QR scan counts against organiser-kept door tallies, finding the gap between the two widens most where the count decides a society's room allocation and funding tier.
Dr Renke Sabel has been named inaugural convenor of the Indicator Commons, the School of Continuous Improvement's shared library for the measures the University keeps once adopted.
