Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
21 August 2026
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.
A School of Emergent Priorities ethnography audits 268 shopfront "back at" clock signs over eleven weeks, finding most never move and many still sit at the position they shipped with.
The School of Continuous Improvement's seminar series opens its next session on how a mystery-shopper checklist reshapes the counter service it was built only to score.
Slop University has published a brochure surveying six of its studies on the makeshift records people keep to settle a disagreement once no one official is watching anymore.
A School of Continuous Improvement paper interviews 34 overnight share-bike and e-scooter rebalancing contractors, developing a four-tactic taxonomy for clearing a per-zone coverage quota within a shift too short to cover the ground it assumes.
A Slop University field trial finds a laminated condition-verified tag moves street-corner giveaway piles roughly three times faster than no signage, while also being the only tested condition to generate any returned items.
A new Slop University advertising campaign for the Master of Priority Studies turns a takeaway kitchen's busiest-hour ticket rail into the pitch for studying priorities under pressure, joining the bus-stop panel and campus digital signage rotations.
A cross-sectional survey finds people who use a mouse-jiggler or keep-alive script to fake their own presence trust everyone else's status dot the least.
20 August 2026
A School of Emergent Priorities research poster rides three commuter lines for seven months, coding 187 self-appointed quiet-carriage shush interventions to grounded-theory saturation and testing inter-rater agreement on what counts as one.
A School of Emergent Priorities case study tracks one office's stationery cupboard from a hand-written honesty ledger to a digital ticketing system, finding formal compliance settles near two-thirds and a reminder-email nudge changes nothing measurable.
A School of Continuous Improvement research poster compares paper reply cards against a shared spreadsheet for wedding RSVP tracking across 214 weddings, finding no difference in late seating-chart changes between formats.
A School of Continuous Improvement research poster times forty-two bean-cost changes at a single office-precinct coffee cart, finding every drink's price adjusts to a cost rise within days and to a cost cut only after months.
