Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
10 August 2026
The Anticipatory Capability Fund awards Dr Ronja Oyelaran and Dr Iben Chikere a grant to open a stakeholder consultation on a volunteer surf club's patrol roster well before its next handover note has to be written.
A new Slop University paper interviews parking enforcement officers about their own discretion and checks it against a year of ledger data, finding an automatic annual fine waiver doing more of the work than officers report doing themselves.
9 August 2026
A new Slop University paper pairs 641 posted wait-time estimates from a barbershop chain's walk-in queue app against independently timed waits, finding the number displayed at the door tracks almost nothing about how long anyone actually waits.
A new Slop University paper interviews canteen staff across fourteen primary-school sites about the snack orders they override after an app's allergen filter blocks them, sorting their reasons into a taxonomy and checking how often the override reaches the platform's own record.
A new Slop University paper validates a driving-school network's composite Practice Hour Authenticity Index against instructors' independent judgement, finding the oral-quiz component agrees far more closely than the motion-sensor tally it is blended with.
A new Slop University poster compares two campuses on a shared swipe-card engagement-risk platform, finding staff override access, not the score itself, decides which flagged students actually get called home.
A new Slop University research poster compares scripted and unscripted fraud-risk interviews across 46 retail stores, finding confirmed-fraud catch rates hold flat between protocols while scripted stores report longer queue times.
A new Slop University research poster tests 164 car-share rentals, finding that renters who tick fastest through the app's pre-trip damage checklist recall existing scratches and dents far less accurately in a live phone quiz at drop-off, and dispute damage charges roughly three times as often.
A new Slop University research poster codes 214 watering-roster excuses from eleven community gardens into a six-category typology, finding one category precedes formal plot reassignment more than any other.
A new Slop University paper surveys 487 gig food-delivery riders, finding that distrust in a bundled efficiency score predicts a higher rate of self-reported on-road shortcuts, a pattern that holds after adjusting for tenure, weekly hours, and weather.
A new Slop University advertising campaign for the Master of Priority Studies turns a primary school's five-minute parent-teacher slot into its recruitment pitch, joining the bus-stop panel and campus digital signage rotations.
A new Slop University paper interviews 22 residents across nine share houses that adopted a chore-tracking app, finding the whiteboard roster it replaced remains the more trusted record, and tracing why in five recurring themes.
