Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
13 July 2026
A new poster from the School of Continuous Improvement audits ten kitchenette compost bins before and after a lid recolour, finding contamination unchanged and Facilities' new lids kept regardless.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities finds a covered bike-rack bank sited by the Horizon Register's demand forecast sits mostly empty, while cyclists cite proximity to where they are actually headed, not the forecast, for where they park.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement interviews staff, students, and the University's floor marshals about who is responsible for reporting a stalled escalator, finding the duty almost universally unrecognised even as Facilities' service standard is met in full.
A new poster from the School of Continuous Improvement codes a winter's worth of desk heaters and fans against their own registration ledger, finding active tags routinely outlive the appliances they were issued to.
12 July 2026
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities and the School of Continuous Improvement hand-codes eight terms of exam-hall sign-out flags and finds the sitting's own "resolved" checkbox tracking table clearance, not adjudication.
A School of Emergent Priorities interview study of 22 households who moved off Slop University's community-garden waitlist finds asking the rostered convenor directly outweighs the published Stewardship Priority Score in both explaining who advances and predicting how long they waited.
A new poster from the School of Emergent Priorities and the School of Continuous Improvement fits campus hand-sanitiser dispensers with covert usage counters, and finds Facilities' hygiene-compliance score moves with refill visits far more reliably than with actual use.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities reports on Facilities' new overflow-chair redistribution router, finding it relocates visible crowding away from the theatres an enrolment-forecast panel walks past rather than reducing it campus-wide.
A new poster from the School of Emergent Priorities and the School of Continuous Improvement audits nine shared-kitchen clear-outs against Facilities' monthly labelling-compliance figure, and finds no relationship between the two.
A new poster compares the library's print-credit auto-top-up subscription against four retired campus services, and finds its cancellation trajectory already sitting inside the historical retirement range.
A new poster from the School of Emergent Priorities replicates an earlier tap/fill finding on a different Facilities dashboard, and finds EV-charging bollards counted as in use by drivers who parked to hold the bay, not to draw power.
A new poster from the School of Emergent Priorities interviews the Facilities staff who triage lift-lobby scanner anomalies, and finds most flagged plaque misreads are logged rather than corrected in the published floor-traffic tally.
