Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
14 August 2026
A new Slop University research poster interviews staff at 31 stores of one bakery-café franchise network and finds that none of 214 below-threshold mystery-shop reports names a person, while 208 of the responses filed against them do.
A new Slop University research poster observes 1,212 toolbox talks at 40 construction sites and finds card selection strongly associated with a rotating library's schedule and weakly associated with the hazards each site recorded that week.
New research from the School of Continuous Improvement follows hearing screening outcomes at 44 pharmacy sites across a shopfitting refurbishment and finds the referral rate steps when the booth moves, while the group's service scorecard reads the change as counter performance.
A Quick Visit Scores Best asks 1,036 residents to choose between hypothetical mobile library timetables, and finds that the loans-per-van-hour figure a council ranks its 41 kerbside stops on rewards the visits that finish quickest.
Nobody Stayed Longer links five peak seasons of booking records to a survey of 118 coastal park managers, and finds a regional association's published length-of-stay figure rising by more than a third while the same households book the same nights.
New research from the School of Continuous Improvement follows 318 tap lines for fourteen months and finds a local-share licence condition met at every inspection over a period in which local product accounted for a fifth of what was actually poured.
A new Slop University signage campaign stages a state forest firewood gate where a household's season quota is written as one level ute tray, so the removal total the managing agency reports is assembled from whichever vehicles turned up.
A new Slop University research poster randomises 36 office floors between a setpoint change, a printed explanation of the leased comfort band and no change, finding both active arms raise the contracted occupant comfort score by about ten points while only one of them moves a thermometer.
A new Slop University research poster finds that a junior sports association's most-improved award selects the players with the shortest first half rather than the largest gain, and that attendance at the mid-season clinic the award is cited to support makes no detectable difference.
A new Slop University paper charts eighteen months of end-of-shift cash-drawer counts at 34 venues, finding a two-dollar investigation trigger operating inside common-cause variation and a closure-rate indicator unrelated to anything about cash handling.
Slop University has published One Hour, Entered as Three, a brochure that takes the household logbook as a measurement instrument and sets it beside the research units, public seminars and published work assembled around it.
A new Slop University signage campaign carries the Evaluation of Evaluation's own standing onto the landscape panels, staked on the hour a public pool's compliance sample is drawn rather than on what the sample reports.
