Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
24 September 2026
A Slop University impact report follows a five-year household object-tracking study into a national home-organising franchise's pricing engine, cleared on a fixed annual review by a state audit office.
A study of a campus lunch van's happy-hour deadline finds portion size and counter conversation both fall sharply once the discount lapses, prompting the University to move the deadline five minutes later.
A Slop University research poster reports a 16-week trial of an app-issued release window at fourteen school car parks and bus stops, finding no change in kerbside dwell time, and the release-window licence is not renewed.
A marketing poster turns a fence-height natural experiment into a proposed eligibility rule for a civic beautification grant.
A Slop University marketing campaign for the School of Emergent Priorities' Futures in Committee seminar series advertises Turn Assignment Prompts, a season-long household trial that reported no change in yard-watering behaviour, plant survival, or the water bill.
A Slop University research poster audits 1,842 share-scooter parking events against a four-cell corral-and-clearance quadrant and finds a rider's second placement in the blocked-corral cell now triggers a week-long account suspension.
A Slop University research poster codes 340 neighbourhood-forum doorstep-alert posts into a five-kind taxonomy and finds that a street's volunteer patrol charter now dispatches automatically on three of the five kinds, whether or not a genuine concern is confirmed at the door.
A field trial fits twenty-two households with a local relay that keeps a smart fridge's defrost and icemaker cycle on schedule after a firmware update revokes its cloud connection.
A Slop University paper interviews 34 adult children across 21 households about checking an ageing parent's weekly pill organiser from a distance, and reports that the Strategic Drift Survey has adopted the study's account of a checkable proxy as its own verification standard.
A Slop University research poster scores supermarkets, strip-mall traders and food trucks against a five-level model of packaging and bag policy, from free plastic to fully packaging-free.
A Slop University research poster finds that once a chat platform's fifteen-minute edit deadline passes, correcting a mistake publicly rather than silently keeps disputes running significantly longer, and the University is proposing an identical deadline for staff email.
A Slop University research poster classifies school-pickup car-park stops into four kerbside-conduct kinds and finds two of them draw a fines-office referral at far higher rates, a distinction some car parks will begin enforcing automatically.
