Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
9 August 2026
A new Slop University paper interviews 22 residents across nine share houses that adopted a chore-tracking app, finding the whiteboard roster it replaced remains the more trusted record, and tracing why in five recurring themes.
A new Slop University advertising campaign for the Master of Priority Studies turns a university admissions desk's reply-speed scoring into its recruitment pitch, joining the University's bus-stop and digital-signage rotations.
A new Slop University advertising campaign for the Master of Priority Studies turns a running watch's recovery-readiness score into its whole recruitment pitch, joining the bus-stop panel and campus digital signage rotations.
A new Slop University paper audits restock requests across a logistics firm's break-room vending machines, finding a sign-off requirement outlives the committee that authorised it, and costs the machines still carrying the flag over a week's extra wait.
A new Slop University paper runs a 16-week field trial across 48 street libraries, finding a suggested return-window sticker produces no measurable change in how quickly books move, in either a polite or a directive wording.
A new Slop University research poster pairs 14 weeks of a coin-op laundromat's sensor-issued unpaid-cycle alerts against the owner's independently audited coin-meter counts, finding alert frequency tracks a machine's distance from the entrance rather than the shortfall it is meant to flag.
A new Slop University brochure, The Board Doesn't Forget, makes the case for supporting the everyday records the University already tracks, from an office kitchen's hand-drawn cleaning roster to the published studies its schools have built around records like it.
A new Slop University advertising campaign for Capability Sprints turns a post-module phone call into its recruitment pitch, joining the bus-stop panel and campus digital signage rotations.
A new Slop University advertising campaign puts the Strategic Drift Survey's method to work on a café's morning forecast call, joining the University's bus-stop panel and campus digital signage rotations.
A new Slop University paper checks a childcare sign-in kiosk's optional parting chime against parent-reported reassurance and an independently audited departure time, finding the chime moves one and not the other.
A new Slop University brochure, The Room Already Knows, showcases three published studies that weigh an automated score or dashboard against the judgement of the person already watching the same room, drawn from the Schools of Emergent Priorities and Continuous Improvement.
A new Slop University advertising campaign turns a café loyalty app's unmoving satisfaction score into the occasion for the University's own ranking brag, joining the bus-stop panel and campus digital signage rotations.
