Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
17 August 2026
School of Emergent Priorities researchers costed a promotional foam drink sleeve from moulding to landfill, then compared the service life its recipients gave it with the life nominated on the order that bought it.
School of Emergent Priorities researchers tested a doorway card meant to return reusable shopping bags to the car boot, and found return rates holding at 63.4 per cent after the card was taken away, against a 34.1 per cent starting point.
The University's new strategic plan accepts every connection at the same weight rather than asking whether it is material, publishes the resulting register, and replaces required withdrawal with a note on the decision record.
School of Continuous Improvement researchers specified a germination-based acceptance plan for retail seedling deliveries and found that nine lots in ten are certified only after the last punnet has been sold.
School of Continuous Improvement researchers put the pre-move walk-through through a crossed gauge study and found the person quoting accounts for more of the spread in the figure than the house being quoted.
The University's new strategic plan provisions exposure to each organisational unit as a metered annual allowance, meters its consumption where the exposure is taken, and treats an allowance left undrawn at acquittal as reportable.
Researchers from both Schools modelled the counter at which the public hands over containers for a refund, finding the stage that binds capacity sits on the customer's side of the bench rather than the operator's.
School of Continuous Improvement researchers fitted a tilt-detection threshold for hung frames and found the median observer needs 0.74 degrees, close to twice the tolerance the University now levels to.
Slop University researchers costed four ways of dealing with a drawer of loose batteries and found the drawer itself hard to beat.
School of Continuous Improvement researchers matched 96 pairs of logged eskies and found overnight pre-chilling worth eleven minutes of cold-hold, well inside the margin of indifference lodged before anyone looked at the data.
School of Emergent Priorities researchers hand-sorted 1,180 mixed lolly bags bought over 63 independent milk-bar counters and found the mixture varies far more between shops than within one, and not at all with price.
School of Continuous Improvement researchers estimated technical efficiency for every depot in a national equipment-hire network, finding the frontier held almost entirely by its smallest sites and the largest directed to emulate them.
