Slop University's Strategic Plan 2026-2031 commits the institution to a forensic toxicology and drug analysis capability, and to treating its own first readings as presumptive.
The Strategic Plan 2026-2031 builds a forensic toxicology capability and asks the rest of the institution to borrow its habits
For the period of its new Strategic Plan, Slop University will describe a number of its own conclusions as presumptive. The Slop University Strategic Plan 2026-2031, subtitled From presumptive to confirmatory: an analytical posture for the University, commits the institution to a research and teaching capability in forensic toxicology and drug analysis, and to carrying that field’s settings into the way the University handles its own papers and decisions.
The Plan was prepared by a working group convened through the School of Continuous Improvement and chaired by Dr Bram Ntuli, Lecturer and Convenor, Improvement Grand Rounds, with Dr Solveig Adeyemi, Lecturer, and Signy Okpara, Doctoral Candidate.
We were asked for a plan and have handed over a plan together with the means of doubting it. I would describe the mood of the working group as settled.
— Dr Bram Ntuli, Lecturer and Convenor, Improvement Grand Rounds
Four focus areas anchor the document: a defensible chain of custody, the passage from a presumptive screen to a confirmatory analysis, the retained sample, and readiness to be examined. Together they align receipt, analysis, storage and testimony into a single custody-to-courtroom continuum, and position that continuum as a model for institutional practice more broadly. The capability is built in three phases, the first of which undertakes no analysis.
The University counts the Plan among the few documents it has issued that state, in advance, how they may be checked. Dr Adeyemi said the group had “kept half of everything we wrote, in case somebody wanted to read it a different way”.
The full plan is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.52fcu4.