Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
9 July 2026
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.
A School of Continuous Improvement paper interviews the subcommittee that drafts the AI Use Transparency Statement and finds disclosed categories track audit defensibility rather than logged usage, a pattern that held even after drafters gained direct access to the underlying tracker data.
A School of Emergent Priorities poster tests the Role-Continuity Classifier against an independent archivist panel and finds the two agree only moderately, with almost all the disagreement falling on invigilation posts.
A School of Emergent Priorities paper interviews 27 staff about the informal key-sharing network they built to keep the tea-room biscuit tin stocked once the Authorised Restocking Protocol's contracted supplier fell behind demand.
A School of Emergent Priorities poster audits committee minutes behind the University's return to supervised examinations and finds the recorded justification seldom names the incident that was live when the item was first tabled.
A five-year Impact Report from the School of Continuous Improvement finds its own fleet-uptime dashboard tile and an independently walked service check moving apart as the campus robot fleet grew.
A new paper audits the Capability Sprints' compute-hours-per-output metric and finds a facilitator leaderboard's accidental staggered rollout moved usage, not the analyses behind it.
Slop University has published a case-for-support brochure setting out the infrastructure that carries its research from a first signal to a recorded institutional decision, and the support needed to keep that path open.
A School of Emergent Priorities poster tests the staff car-park Priority Score against independent commuting-need measures across 214 renewals, and finds the rank tracks how completely a form was filled in rather than the need it asks about.
An interview study finds most staff who keep edit-history access to the Horizon Register can reconstruct a redacted scanning item, and most already have.
A School of Continuous Improvement paper audits four years of Improvement Grand Rounds and finds presenting a case does not reduce its recurrence, only the presenter's odds of an early recall.
A School of Emergent Priorities paper surveys Master of Priority Studies alumni and finds a capstone panel's priority rank has no association with implementation, while a pre-existing budget line predicts it in the overwhelming majority of cases.
