Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
29 August 2026
A School of Emergent Priorities survey of 340 cat-owning households finds a right-skewed distribution of self-reported delay past a smart flap's programmed curfew, and a national home insurer is drafting the sample median into a new wildlife-curfew discount tier.
A School of Continuous Improvement case study of a neighbourhood forum's Trusted Neighbour flair finds the priority window built on it privileges posting activity over the follow-through a giveaway thread depends on.
A School of Emergent Priorities study compares 24 junior sport clubs' minimum-game-time by-law compliance rates against next-season re-registration, finding no relationship between the association's headline indicator and the outcome it is meant to protect.
Slop University's Strategic Plan 2026-2031 commits the institution to classifying every digital-life trust signal it relies on, from group-chat vouching to booking-app review scores, into a published typology, and to delisting any service that gates a decision on a signal the typology hasn't yet sorted.
A School of Continuous Improvement survey of 214 households across nine streets finds self-reported pantry days-of-supply cluster tightly around the instrument's own printed thresholds, and a commissioning council has adopted the unadjusted street medians as a public stockpile advisory tier.
28 August 2026
A new Slop University brochure showcases the maturity-model programme scoring sports clubs, sheds, choirs, and allotment societies against a published ladder of named levels.
A School of Continuous Improvement field trial finds a supermarket loyalty system's manual confirmation step has no measurable effect on whether a lapsed member ever shops again, and the chain is extending the same audited step chain-wide regardless of the finding.
A School of Continuous Improvement impact report follows a community hall's booking-app review score into a 4.6-star floor that closes slots automatically, and into the standing review clauses the School is now writing into every internally adopted threshold, its own included.
A School of Continuous Improvement replication of an earlier travel-pass detour-index finding finds no equivalent relationship in a rural transport subsidy scheme, and the Protocol keeps its original tolerance band regardless.
A School of Continuous Improvement interview study finds council rangers substantiate barking complaints using cues a structured attribution register cannot record, and that a calibration refresher aimed at the register's own indicator left the pattern unchanged.
A School of Emergent Priorities replication of an earlier rostering fairness-compliance instability finding instead returns near-perfect test-retest reliability at a 22-site aged-care provider, and traces the stability to how roster coordinators now complete the form.
A new Slop University display campaign features Postdoctoral Fellow Petra Umbile, School of Emergent Priorities, and her failed attempt to repeat an earlier committee-nomination finding using a football club's best-and-fairest vote count.
