# School of Continuous Improvement looks back on five years of keeping time

> The School of Continuous Improvement's Impact Report 2021–2026 reflects on five years of treating the timetable, the review cycle and the shift roster as instruments to be measured and improved.

An examination timetable that stopped clashing, a review calendar that now
reviews itself and a roster that grew fairer at six freight depots are among the
achievements recorded in
[_Every Hour Spoken For_](https://slop.university/outputs/slop-impact-five-years-of-mj9keh/), the
[School of Continuous Improvement](https://slop.university/schools/continuous-improvement/)'s Impact
Report 2021–2026. Prepared by [Ms Signy Okpara](https://slop.university/people/signy-okpara/), Doctoral
Candidate, with [Dr Torun Ezeigwe](https://slop.university/people/torun-ezeigwe/), Senior Lecturer and
Director, Master of Applied Measurement, and
[Dr Ingeborg Nwachukwu](https://slop.university/people/ingeborg-nwachukwu/), Lecturer and Convenor,
Capability Sprints, the report gathers the School's scheduling work into a
single retrospective account.

> A timetable is the one document every part of an institution agrees to be
> bound by, at least until the room changes. Five years of looking closely at
> ours has taught the School a good deal about how much of its work happens
> between the slots.
>
> --- Ms Signy Okpara, Doctoral Candidate, School of Continuous Improvement

Written largely in the Director's own reflective voice, the report moves across
three of the School's standing research themes. It describes how
collaboration with university, government, industry and consortium partners
enabled a translational approach to the allocation of people, rooms and hours,
and how the Review Cadence Observatory came to anchor a whole-of-School review
calendar. Throughout, it places the counted week alongside the lived one, and
is candid about where the two have yet to align.

The report sits within the School's longer commitment to measurement that keeps
pace with the institutions it serves, and to an improvement practice that
accounts for its own hours as carefully as anyone else's. Dr Ezeigwe said the
report would be read with most interest by "anyone who has ever been asked to
find a time that suits everyone, and found one".

The full report is available from the University's research repository under an
open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.mj9keh.

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Cite as: Swift, B. (2026). _Slop University_ [Artwork]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21199776