# Seed-grant eligibility now reads the courtyard parapet

> A School of Continuous Improvement paper codes courtyard-pigeon loafing into four kinds and records the research committee's decision to key the next seed-grant round to two of them.

The School of Continuous Improvement has given its next internal seed-grant round a courtyard to read. A paper led by Senior Lecturer Dr Torun Ezeigwe, Director of the Master of Applied Measurement, with Associate Professor Casimir Beng, Lead of the Adaptive Metrics Lab, and Lecturer Dr Solveig Adeyemi, codes the loafing flock at fourteen campus buildings into four locked kinds and records the research committee's decision to treat two of those kinds as the published eligibility floor.

> A building already had a flock. The round now has a way to read it.
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> --- Dr Torun Ezeigwe, Senior Lecturer and Director, Master of Applied Measurement

Observers scanned each facade at 10:15 across eighteen term weeks and sorted the modal kind into Ridge-sit, Pair-loaf, Scatter-forage, or Gutter-line. After a draft floor was circulated in week 12, Ridge-sit became the modal kind at buildings with a pending application and stayed where it was at buildings without one. The committee has adopted the floor for the subsequent round: an application is eligible if the applicant's building returns Ridge-sit or Pair-loaf in the week of the closing date, and ineligible otherwise, with no ordinary override.

The School is prepared to let a courtyard flock do the work of a closing date.

Dr Adeyemi said a kind that can be coded at a standing hour is a kind a closing date can be written against. "The parapet was already occupied. It is now occupied on the round's terms."

The full paper is available from the University's research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.p9qou8.