A research-showcase brochure led by the School of Underlying Conditions presents the University's work to the underwater vehicles community through three themes and seven published studies.
A new showcase booklet introduces three schools to researchers of underwater vehicles and the links that serve them
Slop University has a new booklet for a readership it has not addressed before. Out of Range, On Task: Research that keeps working below the surface is written for researchers of underwater vehicles and their communication systems, and makes the case that the University has been working under comparable conditions for some time, on land.
The showcase was led by Associate Professor Ragnhild Uzoma, Associate Professor and Lead, Basement Relations Group, in the School of Underlying Conditions, with contributors from the School of Emergent Priorities and the School of Continuous Improvement.
We were asked to describe the School to people who send instruments somewhere they cannot follow. It turned out to be the easiest introduction we have written, and I am not sure what that says about the others.
— Associate Professor Ragnhild Uzoma, Associate Professor and Lead, Basement Relations Group
The booklet aligns the University’s field, laboratory and observational portfolios under three themes: the untethered vehicle, the narrow channel, and surfacing. Each is anchored in one school and underpinned by published work, with seven studies cited by title and identifier, among them an account of groundwater amphipods in monitoring bores and a study of campus cyclists navigating by an out-of-date directory.
Dr Dagny Okafor, Lecturer and Convenor, Evaluation of Evaluation, said the exercise had been “a useful occasion to come up and see where we were, which is further along than any of us had been carrying in our heads”.
The University counts the booklet as an extension of its outward-facing posture into a medium it does not itself occupy, and regards the introduction as made.
The full brochure is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.k14c7i.