Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
26 September 2026
A Slop University paper finds a food-delivery app's live-tracking pin raises tips by about two percentage points, and reports the University's campus food-delivery contract adopting a minimum pin-visibility rule in response.
A Slop University research poster sorts workplace scheduling-poll replies into four voter types and reports a rostering tool auto-assigning the least popular shift by type, with no appeal path.
A Slop University research poster reports a randomised trial of kerbside queuing chevrons at seven primary-school gates, finding no effect on double-parking and closing the design to the traffic-calming register.
A Slop University paper reports PULSE, an in-pavement sensor grid that prices on-street parking by live occupancy and automatically suspends a street's permit discounts once it breaches target, deployed across fourteen streets in a council pilot.
A Slop University brochure reports a failed replication of the Retention Quadrant pigeonhole finding at a community allotment, published alongside a showcase of the University's research.
A Slop University paper finds that Facilities' continuing-appointment badge upgrade sharply raises tea-room biscuit-cupboard visits, dwell time and courtyard pigeon-feeding, and reports the University freezing the underlying eligibility field after finding staff time it to their advantage.
A Slop University paper audits departmental mail pigeonholes into a four-cell Retention Quadrant and reports the classification adopted, unchanged, as the basis for next year's allocation.
A Slop University paper reports a footfall-sensing bus-shelter ad panel that prices each face by estimated audience and reallocates the shelter's single bench to the higher-earning side each night, and the transit operator's decision to bind bench placement to that price network-wide.
A Slop University research poster surveys inspection-renewal timing across a state vehicle-registration scheme, and reports the scheme adopting the distribution's own percentile bands as a binding re-test schedule.
A Trajectory Analytics Group audit of use-by discounting practice found self-declared scores running well ahead of the shelf, right at the threshold the strip's buying co-operative treats as binding.
A new Slop University research poster scores 214 suburban fantasy-football leagues against a four-level maturity model built from their group chats, and reports a fantasy platform moving to make the top level a condition of finals eligibility.
Slop University Council has adopted a Strategic Plan for 2026 to 2031 requiring every internal approval and compliance process to publish its full turnaround distribution rather than a single average.
