Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
14 July 2026
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities matches 348 students' first library noise complaints, finding an informal silent-study-pod referral closes the complaint record at a substantially higher rate than a verbal warning alone.
A new poster from the School of Emergent Priorities audits the Horizon Register's wet-weather umbrella-bin forecast against a caretaker simply repeating yesterday's count, finding the forecast earns a real advantage only on the heaviest rain mornings.
The Office of Research Outputs awards its Deposit of the Quarter Prize to Dr Sten Okwuosa, recognising a repository deposit filed with complete metadata and no follow-up chase from the Office.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement tests a Directly Responsible Individual placard scheme on meeting-room marker caddies, finding it changed staff confidence in restocking far more than it changed whether the caddy was actually stocked.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement audits nine shared postdoctoral offices' door nameplates against the weekly hot-desk roster, finding a stale tab behind most of the semester's misdirected mail, parcels, and visitors.
Slop University has published a research-showcase brochure, The Pause Is the Point, tying three published studies to its work on designed interruption.
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities finds a trolley-location forecast grew sharply more accurate once staff could see the tracker, and traces the gain to trolleys that simply stopped moving.
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities tracks a casual-tutor marking room after a badge-tap rule, finding the marking simply moved to unbadged rooms while the requirement went unreviewed for a year.
A new poster from the School of Emergent Priorities finds a student's first cover-sheet AI-use declaration predicts every later one, even as an independent reliance estimate moves considerably underneath it.
A new poster from the School of Continuous Improvement tests whether the campus apiary's hive-weight Pollinator Index predicts wild-pollinator richness nearby, finding the two move independently across a full season.
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities audits eight weeks of intercampus shuttle dispatch logs, finding drivers overrode the arrival-forecasting model's skip call on more than one in three reviewed stops, most often for a queue the model had already logged as empty.
A new research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement interviews lapsed bike-rack-tag holders and Facilities staff, finding a dormant reservation's time to release depends on why it was never given back, not on any technical barrier to doing so.
