Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
3 September 2026
A new Slop University advertising campaign features Living Dashboard convenor Dr Marit Osayande mounting her meeting-room neglect protocol on a bedroom-door star chart at home, where the board stays under near-constant review instead of drifting into the unread neglect its office counterpart reliably shows.
A School of Continuous Improvement paper reports a cluster-randomised trial across 55 retail-chain sites testing whether a visible running tally changes what staff submit to a staff town hall's Q&A queue, and finds no measurable difference under any condition tested.
A new Slop University brochure, Welcome, Not Open, introduces the Standing Invitation Matrix, which classifies a household by whether its welcome mat still matches its actual openness to callers, and previews a published register recommended for households that fall out of step.
A new Slop University advertising campaign features Postdoctoral Fellow Joost Nwosu and the irrigation system he built, which moves a fixed share of water each week from whichever raised garden bed is growing slowest to whichever is growing fastest.
A School of Continuous Improvement research poster tests a primary school kerb's idling-minutes tally against fortnightly parking-warden reassignment across ten fortnights and finds no relationship, while the roster continues to flip on the tally's reading regardless.
A School of Continuous Improvement research poster restages an earlier level-crossing record-linkage finding at sixty suburban bus stops and finds the identifier gap that explained the crossing's safety record does not reappear, while the transit authority's signage-retrofit list continues regardless.
A School of Emergent Priorities research poster compares on-time equipment-hire returns under a refundable cash bond and a card-hold-only policy across 22 depots, and reports the industry's compliance rationale for the bond finding no support in the docket record.
A School of Continuous Improvement research poster restages a shopping-centre car park's clearance-rate threshold at twelve primary-school pickup zones and finds the relationship it predicted does not reproduce, while permit renewal keeps applying the threshold regardless.
A School of Continuous Improvement research poster interviews staff across three offices about an AI scheduling assistant that auto-declines meetings landing inside a colleague's Focus Time, and finds one partner office already weighting flexible-rostering eligibility by the assistant's own Protected-Time Score.
A School of Continuous Improvement poster catalogues 214 household kitchen drawers against a shared taxonomy and finds the university adopting the resulting category distribution as the standard used to flag a drawer for a declutter nudge.
A School of Emergent Priorities paper validates a four-tier taxonomy for backyard hen-keeping and finds a shire's bundled Backyard Sustainability Rebate withdrawing water-tank, compost and solar eligibility whenever the hen-keeping criterion alone reclassifies a property.
A School of Continuous Improvement research poster documents a high-street settlement engine that clears pooled loyalty points across fourteen independent shops, and the traders' co-op that now funds its running costs from the engine's own unexplained nightly surplus.
