Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
16 September 2026
A population survey finds booking-app guests and hosts read the same response-rate percentage as three different things, at trust thresholds far apart.
A School of Emergent Priorities paper pilots DRIFT, a two-axis instrument that tiers quick-commerce couriers by delivery-window adherence and earnings volatility, and finds the volatility axis tracks the operator's own dispatch decisions more closely than any courier behaviour.
A School of Emergent Priorities case study traces a single café's duty manager through a quarter in which her roster-override allowance ran to zero, and the chain's Head Office Rostering Committee has since cut every site's allowance in response.
A School of Continuous Improvement Impact Report follows five years of interview fieldwork into TERM, the process that took a floor-coined word for a ratings meeting into a binding enterprise-agreement clause.
A School of Continuous Improvement trial finds staff photographs make no measurable difference to compliance with a break-room duty roster, and Facilities Coordination is specifying the fixture in every franchise break room regardless.
A School of Continuous Improvement survey finds marketplace-forum users share no consensus on what an "or nearest offer" price tag actually promises, and the University's surplus-equipment resale forum has adopted a single discount floor from the survey's most common answer regardless.
Slop University's Strategic Plan 2026-2031 introduces the Exit Concordance Quadrant, which decides whether a vacated professional-services role is backfilled immediately or held for review.
A School of Continuous Improvement replication finds its own five-level commerce scoring model can no longer tell operators apart, and reports that the model's use in terminal-allocation gating continues regardless.
A School of Continuous Improvement research poster sorts junior sports club guernsey-number handovers into four kinds, and a trial association is locking next season's team-selection order to the classification alone.
A new research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities finds vehicle speed and kerbside congestion jump the instant a school-zone sign deactivates, and the finding is becoming a statewide enforcement rule.
A School of Emergent Priorities trial finds a text reminder made no measurable difference to spare-key lockouts, and the street's neighbourhood watch committee is establishing a permanent household register regardless.
Slop University's School of Continuous Improvement closes five years of work on a maturity model that now sets lease priority and terminal access for small traders scored against it.
