# University re-sets its seminar stop after a school-gate replication

> A School of Continuous Improvement poster replicates an earlier eleven-minute interrupt finding at 22 school pick-up kerbs, and the Office of the Vice-Chancellor re-sets the University's seminar-slot stop to fire on 61% of sessions.

The University's seminar-slot stop will from now on fire on 61% of sessions, chosen by a weekly published draw, following a replication study released today by the School of Continuous Improvement. "'Two Minutes, She's Just Coming'" puts an earlier eleven-minute finding to the afternoon pick-up at 22 school kerbs.

> We went to the gate to confirm a number and came back with a fuller sense of how much weight a number can be asked to carry. We are grateful to the schools for letting us stand there.
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> --- Dr Solveig Adeyemi, Lecturer

The poster, by Dr Adeyemi, Dr Joost Nwosu and Dr Bram Ntuli, fitted a timed lamp to the kerb bays of each school and recorded, afternoon by afternoon, whether the first bay had turned over by eleven minutes after the bell. The team fixed the interval and the kerb set in advance and kept a verbatim log of what parents said while they waited.

The Office of the Vice-Chancellor will retain the stop and set it to the earlier rate, with the draw published ahead of each week and no override available to a chair. Every default the University adopts from a survey will also be replicated at a school pick-up kerb before it takes effect. Dr Adeyemi said the team would be glad to fit lamps to a further twenty kerbs.

The release marks the School's continuing attention to how well a finding travels from the place it was first made.

The full poster is available from the University's research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.07m6kr.