Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
21 August 2026
A School of Emergent Priorities poster develops and validates a coding scheme for after-school-care late-pickup excuse notes, then checks it against which categories the centre follows up by phone.
A new civic-showcase brochure traces the University's research on how communities convene, minute, and review, from a lawn bowls club's rink roster to a council working bee's ledger.
A School of Continuous Improvement research poster audits 46 tattoo studios' AI-referenced commissions and finds portfolios converging on a shrinking set of archetypes.
A stepped-wedge poster from the School of Emergent Priorities finds a self-declared return-by tag makes gym-goers wait longer for someone to check an unattended locker, not shorter.
A School of Continuous Improvement impact report finds a home-service worker's completion photo barely outpredicted no photo at all, and tracks how fast a live check-in script travelled once platforms started asking for one instead.
A School of Emergent Priorities poster tracks 41 suburban recommendation chats before and after each adopted an AI-assisted-answer feature, finding the pool of tradespeople actually recommended collapses within months.
A School of Emergent Priorities research poster field-tests a bag-tag telemetry kit built to signal wash-separately handling, and finds the kit's own reliability, not any laundromat's compliance, was the harder thing to establish.
A School of Continuous Improvement pilot scores three shared office fridges for legibility and finds no association with the floor's own meeting-room no-show rate.
A School of Continuous Improvement paper develops and validates a four-domain rubric for judging Book Week costumes, finding good agreement between trained judges and no association between a costume's score and what it cost to make.
A new case-for-support brochure surveys the University's published research on verification instruments that check a record against an independent read, and invites partners to help fund the next one.
The University's new strategic plan unifies every waiting list it keeps onto one published ledger, replacing case-by-case exceptions with a single rule for who moves up next.
A new Slop University display campaign turns a six-year audit of displayed food-hygiene ratings into a portrait-format advertisement, prepared for the University's daylight and after-dark signage.
