Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
19 August 2026
A School of Emergent Priorities paper embeds with a primary-school tuckshop for the first year of its consultancy-delivered strategic plan, finding administration's share of volunteer hours rising from 4.2 to 31.6 per cent while the indicator set grows and nothing is ever retired.
Did Anyone Read It?, a research-showcase brochure released by Slop University, draws seven published studies into a campaign on documentary attention, from the dashboard cited after its last visitor to the newsletter costed per remembering resident.
A new brochure from the Schools of Continuous Improvement and Emergent Priorities invites prospective students into the University's program to draft, review, and ratify the road's unwritten courtesies.
A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities finds the average meeting ends more than twice, and that practised endings change how the close feels rather than when anyone leaves.
Ask For a Person, a civic marketing brochure released by Slop University, gathers the University's research on how people talk to automated systems, citing six published studies by title and DOI and inviting the community to share the phrasings they trust.
A School of Emergent Priorities research poster inventories 412 automations in 61 recently transferred households, finds fewer than half can be both attributed and amended, and proposes a four-class custody taxonomy running from attested to feral.
A School of Continuous Improvement paper codes 173 governance artefacts from 41 office lottery syndicates and finds elaborate rules for a jackpot no syndicate has experienced, while the weekly frictions every syndicate has are left to the manager to sort.
A School of Emergent Priorities paper traces a talkback screening shorthand into a saleable listener-sentiment index, finding six rostered regulars supply a majority of aired minutes and that removing first-time callers barely moves the number.
A School of Continuous Improvement research poster pairs every non-returning dwelling on six streets with a simulated household, lifting recorded survey coverage to 100 per cent and handing the committee concerns no resident raised.
A School of Emergent Priorities research poster follows 412 serialised food containers through a year of street gatherings and finds the fleet intact, redistributed toward the households that host most.
18 August 2026
Slop University has published Someone Has to Look, a civic brochure that carries its research on judgement backlogs, from op-shop donation triage to the archives communities keep but rarely reopen, to the neighbourhoods where that work is done.
School of Emergent Priorities researchers fitted a rotation model to four years of primary-school newsletter award columns and report that the weekly merit certificate follows an unwritten roster faithful enough to name most recipients a median of nine weeks in advance.
