Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
12 September 2026
A School of Continuous Improvement poster sorts a suburban chess club's players into four ledger-derived playing-style archetypes, and reports the club committee binding pennant board order to the typology instead of the official ratings list.
A School of Continuous Improvement paper finds a two-by-two grading quadrant crossing trial attendance with self-assessment accuracy predicts A-grade selection almost perfectly, and on-court ability barely at all.
11 September 2026
A School of Continuous Improvement poster finds a home-insurance discount tied to self-reported smoke-alarm testing keeps paying out well after the audited alarm stops matching the record.
The School of Continuous Improvement's Impact Report 2021–2026 reports that a two-year, three-site trial of PEAK found no dwell-time reduction, and retires the programme without a promise of further work.
A Slop University case study traces a library door-hinge ticket through five stages of hazard-severity review, finding its opening tier never revisited.
A Slop University case study follows a suburban quilting guild's block-count tally from a fairness check to the instrument that now decides who curates the guild's flagship quilt.
A randomised trial of a suburban beekeeping club's fortnightly hive-inspection roster finds no swarm-loss benefit over ad hoc checking, and the club's regional association has written the roster into its public-liability cover regardless.
A School of Emergent Priorities replication tests the University's bin-night streak-chart finding across forty kitchens, and the self-protecting divergence returns only in the six households where an unbroken streak unlocks screen time.
A School of Continuous Improvement study treats the electricity retailer's peak-to-off-peak tariff boundary as a naturally occurring cutoff, finding household dishwasher start times cluster sharply at the line, and reports the Indicator Commons setting the same cutoff as the reference schedule for every University-managed kitchen.
A new Slop University brochure, Every Kind Counts, introduces a four-kind raffle-prize taxonomy behind a fundraising committee's new ticket-pricing tiers, alongside features on a street library's withdrawal schedule and a produce swap's forecasting register.
A School of Continuous Improvement study finds a neighbourhood-forum post's visibility has little to do with its severity, and the University's Improvement Grand Rounds now selects its cases by the same taxonomy alone.
A School of Continuous Improvement interview study documents the vocabulary choir librarians and singers use to describe managing photocopied scores, and reports a regional licensing scheme's decision to fold that vocabulary into a mandatory reason-code log applied to every copy regardless of copyright status.
