Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
14 August 2026
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.
13 August 2026
A new Slop University research poster observes 148,304 drink containers presented at 26 container-deposit return points, finding 8.9 per cent handed back uncounted and a network plan that reads the shortfall as a suburb with little to return.
A new Slop University research poster tests the density of keyed catalogue values at a trading-card chain's premium-tier line, finding 2.7 times the expected mass at the threshold, no matching step in the cards' later resale prices, and a store-quality ranking built from the difference.
A new Slop University paper reconstructs one season of deputising across a 19-band regional brass band association, finding six players whose withdrawal would leave a third of the calendar unstaffable and a membership index that rises as a band's reliance on borrowed players increases.
Slop University has published The Machine Counts Its Own Wins, a prospectus brochure that follows an arcade cabinet's self-reported payout counter out to the postgraduate programmes and published findings built around checking numbers like it.
A new Slop University research poster partitions best-lap variance at 22 indoor karting venues, finding that kart identity accounts for an estimated 31 per cent of a headline lap time and that 19 of the 22 standing venue records were set in a kart now among the quickest in its fleet.
A new Slop University research poster re-analyses nine seasons of finish times at a free weekly community 5K, finding the recorded median falls three minutes as volunteer rosters thin while the censoring-adjusted median does not fall at all.
A new Slop University research poster factor-analyses a driving-school chain's six-pillar post-lesson rating form, finding two factors behind the six reported bars and no stable identity for the lowest-scoring pillar that each quarterly development plan is written against.
A systematic review from the School of Continuous Improvement appraised 84 out-of-order notices at council public facilities and found that none reported when the amenity would work again.
A new Slop University research poster costs the between-session resurfacing cadence at nine council-operated ice rinks, finding a threefold spread in passes per public hour, no matching spread in the venues' own ice-quality index, and up to fourteen minutes of every booked hour that never reaches a skater.
A new Slop University research poster re-codes twelve years of one apartment block's noise-complaint tickets by structural bay rather than by named resident, finding the same shared bay behind five separate "resolved" disputes across five different tenants.
A new Slop University paper validates a park-and-ride carpark network's bay-reservation app against the independent in-ground sensors installed under every bay, finding the app overstates afternoon utilisation and never distinguishes a no-show booking from a parked car.
