Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
25 August 2026
A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement and the School of Emergent Priorities codes 161 pottery-guild kiln-slot interviews into a taxonomy of the verbal tactics applicants reach for when the honest answer is thin.
A School of Emergent Priorities and School of Continuous Improvement paper tracks a self-nominated pride sentence through three rounds of manager revision, finding it loses most of its own wording by the personnel file while a matched sentence from the same box degrades more slowly.
A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities times how long the workarounds households invent for a toddler's declared bedtime favourite actually survive.
A School of Continuous Improvement paper reports that formalising an office coffee-shout roster into a rostered, logged, escalation-ladder instrument lifted completion rates across every staff tier over a 14-week deployment, with the smallest gain recorded for management.
Slop University's School of Continuous Improvement publishes a 2021-2026 Impact Report on five years of judgement checkpoints, no-device shifts and partner training built to keep hands-on measurement skill alive alongside automated tools.
We Notice When You Show Up, a prospectus brochure released by Slop University, markets the Master of Priority Studies, Master of Applied Measurement, and Capability Sprints programs by profiling the researchers who lead them and citing five of the University's own published studies.
A fourteen-club field study finds a forensic ball-provenance panel changes nothing about dispute rates, resolution time, or member trust.
A School of Continuous Improvement paper audits a suburban buy-swap-sell group's volunteer-run reverse-image verification badge, finding its effect on buyer disputes decays over six months even as flagged sellers adapt their photography to defeat it.
A paper from the Schools of Emergent Priorities and Continuous Improvement re-tests a validated school-gate handover scale at fourteen caravan parks, finding its structure holds while its central prediction about handover friction does not.
A School of Emergent Priorities and School of Continuous Improvement paper analyses eighteen months of a regional Scout association's badge-evidence app, finding single-sitting skills documented in the high nineties while term-long requirements plateau near a third.
The School of Continuous Improvement has appointed Dr Mirela Hanke deputy convenor of the Living Dashboard, with a standing brief to audit which of the wall's indicators have migrated from measurement to decision proxy.
22 August 2026
A five-year Impact Report from the School of Continuous Improvement traces how a community's contribution-scoring instrument turned volunteering into a citable record, and finds a testimonial written for one recognition round is disproportionately likely to be the one copied into the next.
