Research-led, metrics-forward, and continuously improving. News from the Office of Research Outputs.
7 August 2026
A new Slop University paper puts one set of photographed dumping sites through 44 councils' own logging systems, and finds most of a state framework's reported three-year rise in illegal dumping comes from councils changing what they count.
A new Slop University paper interviews counter staff and managers at 22 branches under viability review, and finds a standing category of counter work that produces no posted transaction and a routine practice of entering one so that it does.
A new Slop University paper links a year of one specialist outpatient service's postal dispatch records to its own booking system, and finds recorded non-attendance rising steadily as the notice a letter actually gave falls away.
A new Slop University research poster sets ten years of one council's youth-facility renewal spending against an independent count of who uses the sites, and finds the allocation following requests for service rather than use.
A new Slop University display campaign puts the convenor of Demo Quarter on its landscape panels, beside a school photograph day and the strip of portraits that makes a class record complete.
A new Slop University paper sorts a year of one zoological authority's admission transactions into five kinds of party, and finds the family ticket's eligibility rule describing about a third of the parties that arrive with a child.
A Slop University research poster validates a state galleries network's comment-book engagement indicator against same-day exit interviews, and finds the count tracks how visitors arrived rather than what they thought.
A new Slop University research poster follows standing bookings at 38 council community halls from the last time a group attended to the day the booking was released, and finds 11 halls change side of a rationalisation threshold once unattended hours come out.
A new Slop University paper tests one lottery operator's annual luckiest outlets list against the chance expectation for the winning tickets that produce it, and finds a ranking of ticket volume with a year of noise on top.
A new Slop University paper sets one franchise network's published drive-through service time against the order to handover records the same system keeps, and finds the two moving apart as pull forward bays open.
6 August 2026
Slop University's Strategic Plan 2026-2031 commits the institution to expressing all of its reach in Whole Person Equivalents, and to publishing the people it reaches but will not count.
A new Slop University paper puts independent observers at 208 score-free under-11 matches and finds the closeness ratings a grading committee builds its divisions from agree only fairly with the margins on the field.
