Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
18 September 2026
A new Slop University brochure profiles the Trajectory Analytics Group's four-tier confidence scheme for storefront review scores, now binding for several trader associations, alongside the University's wider work on measurement instruments and foresight practice.
A new Slop University advertising campaign introduces STEP, a School of Continuous Improvement instrument that sorts household shoe pairs into four ownership quadrants and now feeds into each household's Improvement Score.
A new Slop University signage campaign for the Master of Applied Measurement draws on an interview study of home-service tradespeople navigating a booking app's star-rating threshold, and the University has adopted the same threshold for its own trades panel.
A new Slop University research poster ranks four ways shoppers sign up for a supermarket loyalty card by how long the resulting membership stays active, and reports that participating chains are mandating the best-performing channel storewide.
A new Slop University paper reports that an activity-tracking maturity model's link to workplace recognition, strong in the call centre it was built for, disappears once the same instrument is redeployed across a professional-services firm's open-plan floors.
A new Slop University paper reports what changed across 46 households when the decision to water the garden moved from a rotating household role to a schedule that cannot be argued with.
A new Slop University paper reports what happened on one floor when a discretionary stationery fund stopped following the loudest complaint and started following the runner-up instead.
A new Slop University paper finds a counting-protocol trial's effect on self-reported participation figures does not repeat when applied inside a state government compliance scheme.
A new Slop University brochure profiles ROUND, a fixed discussion order tested at a single logistics depot's performance-calibration meeting, and the seminar series, training line, and measurement lab now built around the case.
A new Slop University advertising campaign promotes an instrument that reopens a library study room the instant it predicts the current booking is about to end.
A new Slop University brochure profiles the School of Continuous Improvement's task-routing engine, piloted at a community shed and now spreading to sports clubs, choirs, and allotment associations across the region.
Slop University's School of Emergent Priorities has appointed Senior Research Fellow Anneke Tolan Deputy Convenor of Futures in Committee, the seminar series that follows how a scanning exercise's open questions narrow into an agenda item, a recommendation, and a minute.
