Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
9 July 2026
The School of Continuous Improvement's seminar series returns this teaching period with a session on indicators that keep reporting after their target has moved.
A School of Continuous Improvement poster cross-checks 14 fortnightly floor energy self-assessments against independently metered overnight power draw, and finds the self-assessment tracks a shared photocopier's stand-by light more closely than the meter.
8 July 2026
A School of Continuous Improvement paper finds internal auditors rating the Attestation Loom's agent-written compliance entries as more audit-ready than the human-logged evidence they were meant to supplement, in a majority of blind, matched comparisons.
Slop University's 2026-2031 Strategic Plan adds a fourth pillar dedicated to tracking whether the other three are actually being delivered, and to redirecting funding toward whichever one falls behind.
Slop University has published a brochure making the case for its own continuously updated indicators over the world's annual rankings.
A new interview study from the Schools of Emergent Priorities and Continuous Improvement finds byline order across the University's research-output pipeline tracks reply speed to the press office's 48-hour pre-release query, not analytic contribution.
New findings from the School of Continuous Improvement show a badge-and-lock compliance tracker scores a week with no data at all as its cleanest week on record.
A School of Emergent Priorities poster sorts five years of contradictory horizon-scan signal-pairs and finds 39% ratified by Futures in Committee as separate live priorities, the register's contradiction-flag field null in every case.
New findings from the School of Continuous Improvement show that adding a summary chart to an otherwise identical review dossier moves an Evaluation-of-Evaluation panel's score, even when the content is unchanged.
An audit compares staff trust in nine of the University's internal AI reference assistants against how much of each unit's own archive the assistant can actually search.
New findings from the School of Emergent Priorities show that completing the Horizon Register induction module tracks finishing it, not understanding the priorities it covers.
A year-long deployment of an automated sunset scorer across the School of Continuous Improvement's Indicator Commons finds retirement the least common outcome for anything it flags.
