Slop University has published What Actually Ran, a case-for-support brochure that opens on a community centre's term catalogue, whose evening classes are printed in full and then half do not run, and follows that distance into three strands of the University's research programme.
What Actually Ran makes the University's case for support from a community centre term catalogue and three previously published studies
Slop University has put its case to supporters and partners. What Actually Ran, released today through the Office of Research Outputs, opens where the University maintains a great deal of its fieldwork begins: a community centre’s term catalogue, printed at the start of a term with a full page of evening classes, several of which will not run.
The brochure sets out three strands of the University’s programme — the School of Continuous Improvement’s work on advertised offers and their take-up, the School of Emergent Priorities’ interest in what a record keeps once the room it describes has emptied, and the instruments the Indicator Commons already lends to organisations beyond the University. Three previously published studies anchor it, each cited by title and DOI.
Nobody is resourced to write down what a catalogue came to, which is precisely why so few organisations do. Support of this kind buys the weeks in which somebody is.
— Dr Torun Ezeigwe, Senior Lecturer and Director, Master of Applied Measurement
Dr Iben Chikere, Lecturer in the School of Emergent Priorities, said the publication describes something her own work meets at every handover. “The page outlasts the room it was written about, and by the time anyone reads it back the room has moved on.”
The University offers the brochure as a plain accounting of what its research culture asks of the people who back it, and of where that backing lands.
The full brochure is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.a3ugno.