Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
10 July 2026
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.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities finds the University's Locker Retention Sweep can't distinguish a tap that keeps a locker alive from one that actually opens it.
A School of Continuous Improvement poster surveys 186 staff across six shared-office zones on the thermostat authority the Shared Comfort Charter grants them, and sets their answers against six months of central override logs.
A new poster from the School of Emergent Priorities tests the Timetabling Office's occupancy forecast, the figure that decides whether a subject's enrolment is capped or grown, against a term of clicker-recorded lecture-theatre attendance.
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities tracks a full term of exam-hall phone-surrender enforcement and finds the procedure runs exactly as strictly on the University's rare open-note papers as on the closed-book papers it was built to police.
A School of Emergent Priorities poster attempts to repeat the coffee-cart queue's celebrated ranking indicator on a second campus queue, and traces the original finding to a shared academic-year rhythm.
A School of Continuous Improvement poster catalogues the hand-lettered notices removed under the Approved Signage Standard and tracks how many returned, finding recurrence concentrated in the functions the Standard's eleven templates do not cover.
9 July 2026
A new paper from the School of Emergent Priorities reports fourteen months of an agentic intake tool that forecasts reclaim odds and schedules disposal dates for the University's lost-property store, and finds its human-review checkpoint barely alters the tool's own decisions.
A School of Continuous Improvement poster compares remediation speed under the Living Dashboard's public and internal-only display conditions, and finds the two arrive at the same pace.
The Indicator Stewardship Seed Fund awards Associate Professor Casimir Beng and Dr Renke Sabel a grant to formalise custodianship of the Adaptive Metrics Lab's reference calibration weights, including a signed handover log and an annual drift check.
A School of Continuous Improvement poster audits the Capability Sprints' new Capacity Reconciliation Index against enrolment-classification logs and finds its climb tracks reclassified enrolments, not seats offered.
A School of Emergent Priorities and School of Continuous Improvement paper audits the Horizon Register's routing logs and finds a coverage-balancing rule concentrates novel-signal handling in five of twenty-eight scanners.
