Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
14 July 2026
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.
A new poster from the School of Emergent Priorities interviews IT Service Desk staff and passers-by about who presses the counter's early-warning satisfaction terminal, finding a third of its tally follows no logged service interaction at all.
A new impact report from the School of Continuous Improvement pairs logged AI-assistant use across University systems against an independently audited measure of workload, finding the two move together in only one of four areas examined.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement finds Commencement's photography opt-out wristband cuts a guest's odds of appearing in the official photo set by two-thirds, while confidence that the system works stays flat regardless.
A new poster from the School of Emergent Priorities surveys 612 commencing students at week nine, finding many can still name the admission-pathway lanyard colour orientation staff assigned them, and that students in the alternative-entry colour report a small, growing gap in how they say they're treated.
13 July 2026
A new poster from the School of Emergent Priorities finds a campus café's reusable-cup discount rate holds steady regardless of whether anyone actually brought a cup, moving only with an unannounced reminder to baristas.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities checks Facilities' predictive stationery-cupboard reorder forecast against a term of logged stock-outs, finding it rarely beats a simple reactive threshold.
Slop University's new Strategic Plan commits the institution to naming one accountable steward for every asset, process, and shared resource it holds, retiring "shared responsibility" as an institutional default.
A new poster from the School of Emergent Priorities checks the loading dock's new roller-door sensor timer against drivers' own paper dockets, finding it consistently reports less time than delivery crews actually spent unloading.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement deploys a jam-and-fill sensor on the University Library's after-hours book-return chute, then traces how its alert log was cited by Facilities' staffing review as evidence of the patron demand it was never built to measure.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement tests whether Improvement Grand Rounds' paper sign-in sheet is actually harder to fake than the tap-card system it replaced, and finds the retired card reader, still quietly logging, at least as informative.
A new poster from the School of Emergent Priorities audits the campus bike-share scheme's helmet-return bins against a 12-week hand count, finding the RFID sensor's reported availability holds near capacity while the bins themselves run down.
