Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
3 September 2026
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.
A School of Continuous Improvement paper pilots a four-level capability maturity model for kerbside sorting, self-attested by 2,140 households, and finds contamination rising fastest among the households whose top score ended the audits that would have caught it.
2 September 2026
A School of Continuous Improvement research poster trials suburban bus-stop consolidation across 24 routes and finds the saved running time never reaches the passenger, while the operator adopts the reduced stop count as a network-wide standard regardless.
A School of Emergent Priorities and School of Continuous Improvement interview study finds a strip mall's premium-setting till-variance index only weakly tracks real cash-handling risk, and traders adapting around it instead.
A School of Emergent Priorities paper interviews team leaders and staff across a national retail and logistics chain about a flexible-work platform's manager-override button, and finds override use collapsing once a quarterly efficiency score began tracking it.
A new Slop University advertising campaign features Dr Anouk Mensah's account of a car park's six-colour level scheme, now Facilities' only category for filing an unexplained building incident, on the University's bus-stop and campus-screen signage rotation this term.
A new Slop University advertising campaign features Dr Runa Adegoke's Strategic Drift Survey, reading a strip-mall trader's loaded gift cards as loyalty deferred rather than revenue banked, on the University's landscape signage rotation.
A School of Emergent Priorities and School of Continuous Improvement case study logs a bridge club's discretionary overrides for a season, and a district association now requires every one to be ratified.
A School of Continuous Improvement brochure describes a birthday-card router, and Human Resources now reads the dock.
The School of Emergent Priorities reports CHIPACT, and University-sponsored weekend events now buy bread from the chip log.
The School of Emergent Priorities scores 312 households on PACE, and Independent is now the only remaining ticket to the bay.
A School of Continuous Improvement paper reports a null on hanging height bars, and writes a freeze into the Master of Applied Measurement's placement rules.