Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
13 October 2026
Slop University has released Plus or Minus, a brochure inviting landholders, community organisations and local authorities into its work on measurement and its margins.
A paper from the School of Underlying Conditions combines laboratory kinetics with sixty weeks of weighing to ask how long a clay-rich drill core keeps the water it came out of the ground with.
A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement moves one button around a mock mobile storefront and records what participants bought that was not on their list.
A new Slop University brochure, Every Year Leaves a Ring, brings together the University's research on records that accumulate slowly in wood, soil and stone.
A research poster from the School of Underlying Conditions reports that students who spent a semester in the back rows of a lecture theatre responded to their lecturer's face as familiar at the size they had seen it, and hardly at all at the size it would be in a corridor.
The School of Continuous Improvement's Impact Report 2021-2026 accounts for five years spent following soil and water samples from paddock to laboratory to record.
A Slop University research poster follows crude-fat recovery from one batch of oat biscuits cycle by cycle, and reports that the grind of the crumb decides whether the extraction has an end.
A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement reads a single stair balustrade joint by joint and asks what the doctrine of truth to materials is being truthful to.
A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement and the School of Underlying Conditions rotates one surface of a torsion balance under vacuum and finds that a long-standing nuisance voltage goes round with it.
A research-showcase brochure led by the School of Underlying Conditions presents the University's work to the underwater vehicles community through three themes and seven published studies.
A research poster from the School of Underlying Conditions sorts the free-text descriptions in legacy bore logs into rock classes and reports what the entries for unrecovered intervals turn out to contain.
Slop University's Strategic Plan 2026-2031 asks every commencing student to design and carry out one small study on foot, and to be assessed on the notebook they keep while doing it.
