Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
11 July 2026
A new poster from the School of Continuous Improvement audits nine teaching periods of phone-pouch distribution against the University's rising share of online-invigilated exam sittings.
A new poster from the School of Continuous Improvement audits whether a water-bubbler's digital refill count predicts its repair priority, and finds it mostly predicts foot traffic instead.
10 July 2026
A School of Continuous Improvement paper validates the central quad's occupancy-aware irrigation controller against a term of independent pedestrian counts, and finds its suppression logic indistinguishable from a fixed timetable.
A new marketing brochure profiles three research groups and cites four published findings, none of them new to the brochure itself.
A School of Emergent Priorities paper surveys borrowers across all fourteen umbrella-loan bins and finds Facilities' entrance-level Recovery Score explained almost entirely by distance to the nearest door, with the self-reported honesty term contributing next to nothing.
A School of Continuous Improvement poster sets a confidential fortnightly need diary against the campus food pantry's visit log, and finds the count the Living Dashboard reads as a hardship signal is bounded by the pantry's own one-visit ration.
A School of Continuous Improvement paper audits the campus vending-machine upgrade against six months of transaction-time and complaint data, finding the modernisation credit was issued before the evidence existed to support it.
A School of Continuous Improvement poster interviews 38 bike-rack permit-holders about whether they still cycle to campus, and finds the University's cycling-participation index keeps climbing regardless of what they say.
A School of Emergent Priorities paper compares anticipatory and reactive magpie-warning sign placement across 46 campus paths and finds no measurable difference in swoop-incident rates between the two.
A new paper from the School of Continuous Improvement fits an independent meter to each of the tallest building's four lift cars and finds the Living Dashboard's headline electricity saving real, but earned by only half the fleet.
A research-showcase brochure from Slop University sets out the method behind four recently published studies, each testing a plan, a standard, or a score against what campus was observed to actually do.
A School of Continuous Improvement poster sorts 1,842 non-conforming items out of the paper-only recycling stream across two audit waves, and finds the largest class is disposable cups and bowls supplied under the University's own catering contract.
