A new Slop University brochure profiles the Master of Applied Measurement, the Master of Priority Studies, and Capability Sprints through a suburban homebrew club's own permanent brewer classification, and introduces the researchers who lead each programme.
A new brochure opens on a tasting panel's permanent brewer classification to introduce three postgraduate programmes built to notice when a category stops being reviewed.
A tasting panel at a suburban homebrew club settled what kind of brewer each of its members was several seasons ago, wrote the verdict into its ledger, and has not reopened the question since. A new Slop University brochure uses the club as its opening case for introducing three postgraduate programmes built around exactly that gap: the moment a category stops being checked and starts being assumed.
The brochure situates the club alongside a wider habit the University says it has been building across two schools all year — training graduates to ask what a classification is being asked to decide before they trust what it says.
Every one of these categories starts as a convenience. What we’re interested in is the season nobody remembers it was ever meant to be revisited.
— Dr Joost Nwosu, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Continuous Improvement
The Master of Applied Measurement, the Master of Priority Studies, and Capability Sprints each get a case of their own in the brochure, alongside a sample of published findings the three programmes’ graduates and staff have already produced. The fieldwork, Associate Professor Kwame Lindqvist added, “keeps finding the same gap in a new committee room every cohort, which is either discouraging or the entire point, depending on the week.”
The full brochure is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.rdn6ys.