Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
26 August 2026
A School of Continuous Improvement poster follows USB print jobs at one suburban counter and finds homemade invitations fail the franchise's original-work scan while catalogues pass, with that scan rate still tabled when the next printer is awarded.
25 August 2026
A School of Emergent Priorities paper logs occupancy on a key-cutting cubby wall and reports that the reminder meant to clear it does not, after which Saturday junior hours follow the stores whose walls are already full.
A School of Emergent Priorities poster finds that rostering hotel housekeeping from a hanger-by-servicing quadrant brings hangers down and leaves rooms unmade.
A School of Continuous Improvement paper reports that a clothing chain's district-manager visits followed attested fitting-room maturity while unknown-loss did not separate by stage.
A School of Continuous Improvement poster finds that 31 per cent of overtime-authorising I'm-here taps sat inside a collect bay, and that Saturday overtime still followed the undifferentiated tap count.
A School of Continuous Improvement paper matches 4,812 home-printed boarding passes to gate-reader logs and finds reprinting lifts first-scan success without moving how long boarding takes.
A School of Emergent Priorities poster codes flavour names against the tubs in the glass cabinet and finds the two uncorrelated, while a count of names on the board still allocated the next freezer.
A School of Emergent Priorities paper finds most cracked-screen quotes at shopping-centre kiosks never come back, then specifies a credit printed on every quote so a circular-economy dashboard can keep a weekly series.
A School of Emergent Priorities poster finds that most metronome-app minutes submitted as piano practice were not minutes at the piano, including those logged from the kitchen bench during dinner.
A new Slop University display campaign puts an independent bookshop's Saturday storytime clipboard on the landscape signage rotation, asking who the list actually counted.
Slop University's School of Continuous Improvement publishes a 2021-2026 Impact Report on five years spent instrumenting, auditing and forecasting device-free compliance across partner schools, from a clasp sensor to a live compliance dashboard.
A School of Continuous Improvement paper deploys a fair-share job-scheduling algorithm, adapted from forty-year-old multi-user computing practice, on a suburban community makerspace's single 3D printer, finding it redistributes queue wait across member types more than it reduces it overall.
