A new Slop University brochure sets out the University's classification and registers research and asks partners to fund a register's next expansion, on the condition that the partner's own name joins the register alongside whatever it funds.
A new case-for-support brochure ties a partner's name to whichever register their support expands, with no removal clause once it is listed.
The School of Emergent Priorities has started asking its funding partners to accept the same terms as everything else its registers track: once you’re in, you’re in. A new brochure, released today, sets out where the University’s classification and registers work now reaches — from a shire council’s incoming correspondence to a municipal dog-registration tag — and invites partners to fund what comes next, on the understanding that a partner who funds a register’s expansion is named inside it as founding sponsor for as long as the register operates.
Every register the University keeps is an argument about what counts as the same kind of thing, and the argument is more interesting than the answer.
— Dr Fenna Okoro, Senior Lecturer and Convenor, Horizon Register, School of Emergent Priorities
The brochure profiles three of the University’s research groups: the Horizon Register’s civic classification work, the Adaptive Metrics Lab’s maturity models, and the community-facing studies that test whether a compliance tag or checklist is trusted as much as it is followed. Each is described the way the University describes its own instruments elsewhere on the record — nothing added informally, and nothing already listed removed outside the associated review cycle.
“A partner joining a register this year is sorted by the same rule as one who joined at the start,” said Dr Ingeborg Nwachukwu, Lecturer and Convenor of Capability Sprints at the School of Continuous Improvement, whose program turns a maturity model from a paper finding into an instrument a partner can run themselves. “The consistency is the offer.”
The full brochure is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.7u6qhv.