Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
20 August 2026
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.
A School of Emergent Priorities paper compares a produce-swap quarantine crate's effect on survey-reported trust against its own sign-out log of what quarantined produce actually gets claimed, finding the two move independently.
A School of Continuous Improvement research poster develops and retests the Hint Fatigue Index, a self-report measure of how demoralising an escape-room hint feels on receipt, finding strong agreement across two visits six to ten weeks apart and prompting a commercial booking platform to pilot the score as a difficulty badge.
A School of Continuous Improvement paper matches 40 office kitchens on a laminated etiquette sign against a time-stamped photographic register, finding the sign's early effect on labelled-lunch disappearances fades substantially within eight weeks.
A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement interviews cloakroom attendants at 21 suburban function centres to build the first taxonomy of how they resolve a collided ticket number, and tests whether a training module built from it changes anything.
A School of Continuous Improvement research poster compares a community theatre society's pre-opening line-check verdicts against backstage earpiece-prompter logs across 214 checks and six show openings, finding the panel far better at clearing the memorised than at catching the prompted.
A new Slop University brochure showcases eight published findings under the banner of a school foyer's phone-pouch wall, tying the University's measurement and anticipation schools together.
A new Slop University advertising campaign features Postdoctoral Fellow Joost Nwosu and his research on what a cleared performance target keeps demanding afterwards, staged around a junior swim club's coloured-cap ladder.
A School of Continuous Improvement research poster audits recognition of a regular's usual order across 22 café sites before and after a rebrand, finding component-level recall holds while the unprompted "usual" call collapses.
Name Your Price, a research-showcase brochure released today, presents the University's published work on informal valuation through the trestle tables, sticker dots and FREE boxes of the weekend driveway economy.
19 August 2026
A School of Emergent Priorities research poster benchmarks a twelve-member route ensemble against 31 observed ice-cream van rounds, finding forecast skill collapses to guesswork 8.4 minutes after the first chime while the residents' association publishes a nightly outlook regardless.
You Can Pick It, a prospectus brochure released by Slop University, invites students into the University's research on how people judge that a thing was made by a person, citing five published studies by title and DOI across two schools.
