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

What Does the Tally Actually Curate?

Fenna Okoro, Casimir Beng, Ingeborg Nwachukwu · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.klk5tb

A research-showcase brochure follows a suburban quilting guild's block-count tally, kept to balance contribution to its flagship show quilt, as it quietly becomes the guild's leadership ladder, and sets the single-site case alongside the University's wider programme of reading what an ordinary community tally is asked to decide.

Poster

Towards a Standard Hive-Inspection Cadence

Casimir Beng, Osei Vandermeer · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.6anw0e

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement runs a three-season randomised trial testing whether a suburban beekeeping club's fortnightly hive-inspection roster reduces swarm-loss rate relative to ad hoc checking. Swarm-loss rate does not differ reliably between arms, and the club's regional association has written the roster into its public-liability cover regardless of the finding.

Poster

Checked, Not Changed

Runa Adegoke, Marek Solheim, Ronja Oyelaran · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.9fa5i0

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities reports a forty-kitchen replication of an earlier single-household finding that a bin-night streak chart begins protecting its own record once a privilege depends on it, fitting each kitchen with a compost-caddy streak chart and an independent bin-sensor log across a twelve-week deployment. The self-protective divergence reproduces only in the six of forty households where an unbroken streak unlocked a Saturday screen-time privilege.

Brochure

Measuring the Off-Peak Line

Renke Sabel, Torun Ezeigwe, Thandiwe Solberg, Sten Okwuosa · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.h9s914

A brochure from the School of Continuous Improvement treats an electricity retailer's peak-to-off-peak tariff boundary as a naturally occurring cutoff, finding household dishwasher start times cluster sharply at the line, and reports the Indicator Commons adopting the same cutoff as the reference schedule for every University-managed kitchen.

Brochure

Every Kind Counts

Mirela Hanke, Renke Sabel, Fenna Okoro · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.wnao59

A research-showcase brochure from the School of Continuous Improvement pairs a suburban raffle table's four-kind prize taxonomy with the per-kind ticket-pricing tiers a fundraising committee has adopted from it, alongside companion features on a street library's withdrawal schedule and a produce swap's glut-forecasting register, and a showcase of seven published studies.

Paper

The Lost Cat Always Rises

Bram Ntuli, Sten Okwuosa, Iben Chikere · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.bacd54

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement and the School of Emergent Priorities codes 812 neighbourhood-forum threads about everyday shared problems into a five-category taxonomy of what makes each post visible, finding the taxonomy predicts a thread's reply count and feed position closely while an independently rated, blinded severity score does not. The School's Improvement Grand Rounds has adopted the same taxonomy as its sole rule for selecting which internally logged incidents reach a case-review session.

Paper

Towards a Reason Code for Every Copy

Solveig Adeyemi, Renke Sabel, Joost Nwosu · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.q86yii

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement interviews thirteen music librarians and forty-two singers across nine suburban choirs on the vocabulary they use to describe managing photocopied scores under a regional choral association's new compliance ledger, and reports the association's subsequent adoption of that vocabulary as a mandatory reason-code taxonomy applied to every logged copy regardless of copyright status.

Poster

Not Reproduced, Not Revoked

Anouk Mensah, Dagny Okafor · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.xlzw3u

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities attempts to reproduce an earlier Slop University finding --- a family-group-chat reply-wait grace period since adopted as the University's binding auto-escalation default --- in a neighbourhood mutual-aid forum's help-request threads, and reports a reply-wait distribution the original figure does not predict in any category. The University's auto-escalation timer keeps the unreplicated figure regardless.

Paper

Open-Participation Nights Do Not Reduce Club Membership

Marit Osayande, Casimir Beng, Mirela Hanke · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.xwy7so

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement reports a pre-registered attempt to reproduce an earlier Slop University finding --- that a club's open-participation night lifts the headcount a funding formula reads while displacing real membership --- across four codes the original single-code study did not test: men's sheds, community choirs, allotment societies, and a netball association's raffle-night fundraiser. None of the four codes, nor the pooled estimate across 61 adopting and 68 comparison clubs, reproduces the original membership effect, while the counted-participation figure each event produces continues to rise and to weight its code's own facility- or plot-allocation formula.

Paper

Flagged for Helping

Iben Chikere, Anneke Tolan, Anouk Mensah · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.icxqz9

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities interviews 34 self-checkout floor attendants across nine supermarket and strip-mall sites, coding what triggers a bagging-area alert in attendants' own vocabulary and matching it against the same events as logged by the Assist Index. The two accounts agree closely on only one of four common categories, and attendants whose banks generate more logged assists now rank lower on the Index's shift-priority tier.

Poster

Documenting Discretion

Solveig Adeyemi, Dagny Okafor · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.fgok4d

A qualitative study interviews 38 reductions officers across fourteen stores of one supermarket chain about the vocabulary they use for stock they hold back from markdown, and traces what happened to that vocabulary once head office required every discretionary hold to be filed on a numbered override form.

Paper

Does a Free Sample Predict Who Gets Into Next Year's Open Day?

Mirela Hanke, Osei Vandermeer, Dagny Okafor · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.9ijgp9

A School of Continuous Improvement paper surveys free-sample uptake across supermarket, strip-mall, and food-truck venues as population distributions, then benchmarks Open Day visitors' own tasting-stall uptake against the retail figures to set next year's event booking-priority band.