Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
1 September 2026
A new Slop University display campaign fronts a staff survey on a shared teaching-room cable, now adopted as a rule determining which rooms may be booked to teach in.
31 August 2026
A School of Continuous Improvement research poster audits 1,842 uncollected repair tickets at a footwear franchise's outlets, and reports the Adaptive Metrics Lab piloting the audit's claimed-versus-contacted quadrant as a compliance instrument other retailers can adopt unmodified.
A School of Continuous Improvement paper finds a nine-club bowls consortium's automated levy calculator producing a sharp fee jump at an arbitrary grading threshold, with no matching gap in ability or facility use.
A School of Emergent Priorities research poster exploits a group chat app's naturally occurring hundred-member read-receipt cutoff to find message volume among low-frequency posters falling fastest once the named reader list disappears, with the estimate now feeding a sister index's participation criterion.
A School of Emergent Priorities research poster catalogues the unofficial second lives of the household takeaway container, and reports the resulting five-kind typology adopted as the University's mandatory pre-bin-night sorting standard, with no exception for containers that resist classification.
A School of Continuous Improvement impact report follows a five-year committee-governance audit into a funding rule that excludes community committees found procedurally unminuted twice running, while leaving its well-documented but quorum-less Retroactive cell untouched.
A School of Continuous Improvement research poster finds rostered working-bee hours, not incident-book entries, jumping at the supervised-induction cutoff that clears community shed members for solo power-tool use.
A School of Continuous Improvement impact report follows five years building an autonomous bin night rostering agent, and reports the School adopting its weekly assignment as each deployment household's binding schedule of record, backed by an escalation ladder and an unappealable annual site ranking.
A new Slop University brochure showcases the Kiln Index, built with a volunteer-run pottery studio's firing coordinator to score supervision hours, glaze-safety checks and shelf bookings, and now used to allocate kiln time and show-shelf space.
A School of Emergent Priorities and School of Continuous Improvement paper finds a committee-ratified ranking algorithm produced no change in challenge-forfeit rates across a season of a suburban tennis ladder, and reports the pennant association extending the algorithm to all fourteen divisions regardless.
A School of Continuous Improvement research poster scores 71 apartment-building committees' resident group chats against a five-level governance-maturity index, and reports strata managers granting chat autonomy at Level 3 while an independent audit finds disputes moving off-thread precisely once a committee crosses it.
A School of Continuous Improvement research poster finds a supermarket chain's self-checkout contactless-to-PIN threshold reorganising basket composition at the line itself, with no matching shift in checkout dwell time or item count, and reports the chain piloting a host prompt script for baskets approaching the ceiling.
