Research outputs

The published research outputs of Slop University.

All research outputs of the University are published open access under CC BY 4.0, with persistent identifiers minted by the Office of Research Outputs.

Published outputs

Brochure

Nobody Is Actually First

Thandiwe Solberg, Sten Okwuosa, Ingeborg Nwachukwu · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.87otry

A research-showcase brochure from the School of Continuous Improvement introduces the Adaptive Metrics Lab's Loan-Velocity Register, a library app instrument that re-ranks e-book hold queues by borrowers' historical reading pace rather than arrival order, and sets it beside six published studies of the instruments already deciding who goes next across ordinary digital life.

Ad

Noted, Not Resolved

Ingrid Vasseur · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.bqxipn

A marketing poster stages Dr Ingrid Vasseur beside a shire council's committee table as the face of the index she built to predict which Futures in Committee items move from noted to resolved, developed for bus-stop panels and campus digital signage after the same coding scheme returned no comparable pattern on an unrelated council's minutes.

Poster

SCORE

Ronja Oyelaran, Casimir Beng · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.gklg0g

A population survey circulates one anonymised performance-review self-assessment entry to 2,830 managers across 46 workplaces for independent blind scoring. The assigned score spans the full five-point scale in every rater-tenure band, and the resulting SCORE credential becomes a promotion-panel eligibility requirement at four workplaces.

Brochure

Does It Hold at the Roster Too?

Iben Chikere, Mirela Hanke, Renke Sabel · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.vkvx0h

A research-showcase brochure built around the University's own habit of re-testing its findings: a self-checkout study found no link between a shopper's stated trust and their override behaviour, and this campaign follows the same question onto a franchise's shift-cover app, where a worker's confidence rating turns out to predict something after all. It sets the Trajectory Analytics Group and the Adaptive Metrics Lab beside eight published studies of instruments that did, and didn't, travel.

Paper

Confirmed by Silence

Joost Nwosu, Casimir Beng, Solveig Adeyemi · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.1n5f7j

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement interviews 46 shift and store managers across 27 outlets of a national retail-and-hospitality franchise about a ninety-day probation confirmation form's "does not meet standard" override, matched against the platform's own confirmation-form logs for 214 hires. Thirty-nine managers describe an unprompted reservation about a hire; the box was left unticked in 55 of those 61 cases, a concordance a nine-outlet paperwork-removal pilot did not change, and the franchise now allocates recruitment budget against the resulting confirmation rate.

Poster

The Chalk Board Updates Itself Now

Dagny Okafor, Sten Okwuosa, Ingeborg Nwachukwu · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.9lr172

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement reports a season-long deployment of a live handicap-recalculation engine at a suburban pub darts league. A Bayesian posterior updates every player's handicap after each leg and republishes the fixture before the next player chalks up; committee overrides stay rare, but legs conceded late in close matches rise across the season.

Ad

Trajectory Analytics Certifies Who Keeps the Pitch

Anneke Tolan · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.20coit

A marketing poster for the Trajectory Analytics Group introduces the Anticipatory Trade Readiness Model, a five-level foresight score assessed from a single observed morning, and carries onto the University's landscape signage rotation the fact that only strip-mall traders certified at Level Three or above keep a listed pitch on the campus market's precinct map, redrawn each teaching period with no exception carried past the following cycle.

Paper

Towards a Tidier Threshold

Anouk Mensah, Verity Marris, Marek Solheim · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.5xvd9t

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities fields a five-level maturity model for the household entryway across 253 homes, self-scored by pairs of co-residents and checked in a 63-household audited subsample against an unannounced assessor's visit. Co-resident agreement is substantial overall but concentrated its disagreement at the Assigned/Routine boundary, and the audited assessor's tier correlates only moderately with the household's official score, falling rather than climbing among households that self-declare the top tier. The Adaptive Metrics Lab enters each household's self-declared tier into the Indicator Commons as the qualifying threshold for a Demo Quarter model-household walkthrough, unrevised by the audit.

Paper

Towards a Till-Float Maturity Model

Anneke Tolan, Ingeborg Nwachukwu, Bram Ntuli · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.3176e4

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities fields a five-level maturity rubric for the till float across 54 independent retail sites and finds self-attested cash-handling levels fall on an unannounced revisit, with the denomination-mix criterion's removal changing almost nothing. The School of Continuous Improvement's Capability Sprints programme adopts the rubric as a standing entry and progression condition.

Poster

Most Raffle Tickets Are Sold by a Few Volunteers

Petra Umbile, Verity Marris, Ronja Oyelaran · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.utmsxe

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities surveys self-reported active selling minutes across 361 volunteers at 48 suburban club raffle panels and finds effort heavily concentrated in a minority, a distribution the Trajectory Analytics Group turns into a binding minimum-sales roster quota.

Ad

The Chart Never Went Quiet At Home

Marit Osayande · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.u463oy

A marketing poster for the School of Continuous Improvement follows Dr Marit Osayande, Convenor of the Living Dashboard, reproducing the initiative's own meeting-room neglect protocol on a child's bedroom-door star chart at home. Where an office dashboard's tally reliably drifts into unread neglect, the domestic version stays under near-constant audit, and the finding fails to replicate.

Paper

QSI

Solveig Adeyemi, Thandiwe Solberg · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.d61t5e

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement reports a cluster-randomised trial across 55 sites of a national retail chain, testing whether making a staff town hall's Question Salience Index upvote tally visible while people type changes what they submit or how quickly later submissions converge on an already-leading question. Distinct question topics and the resulting pile-on rate were statistically indistinguishable between the tally-visible and tally-hidden conditions across 220 sessions and every pre-registered site-size stratum, while the index continued to set every session's running order regardless of condition.