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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

Paper

Eleven Weeks of Warning, None at the Register

Marit Osayande, Torun Ezeigwe, Petra Umbile · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.nhgtil

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement re-runs an earlier capability-drift index --- built to forecast exam-integrity workarounds with an 11.4-week lead --- unchanged on a five-state discount-grocery chain's loyalty-app data, testing whether it anticipates shoppers discovering a discount-stacking workaround at the self-checkout. Across 46 store clusters and 2,116,480 transactions over thirty weeks, the pre-registered replication finds no stable lead time (r = 0.09 against the original's r = 0.79), a null that survives an ablation removing store format, while the chain's promotional-terms revision clause continues to fire on the original's eleven-week cadence regardless.
Poster

Stacked Against You

Verity Marris, Mirela Hanke, Casimir Beng · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.nsnarc

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities reports a ten-week pilot of a load-cell and camera scorer that grades how a shared-house dishwasher rack was packed against a reference loading diagram, wired directly into the household's existing chore-roster app. Median conformance rose in four of five household quintiles across 34 share-house dishwashers; the lowest-scoring quintile did not move, and absorbed every bin-night reassignment the roster issued.
Brochure

Every Case Weighed on Its Own Merits

Marek Solheim, Ingrid Vasseur, Torun Ezeigwe, Casimir Beng · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.sqk6r1

A marketing brochure from the School of Emergent Priorities profiles Slop University's civic-taxonomy research, from a court registry's exemption-category work through to published findings on verge-mowing exemptions, loyalty-scheme dormancy, and discontinued civic schemes, and introduces the researchers building categories that institutions go on to trust.
Paper

Charged, Not Different

Ingrid Vasseur, Kwame Lindqvist, Osei Vandermeer · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.atlz7c

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities and the School of Continuous Improvement treats a residential parking-permit zone's committee-drawn boundary as a naturally occurring cutoff, finding kerb occupancy and permit uptake continuous across the line while compliance-notice issuance jumps sharply, and reports that the council has responded by adopting the original boundary-setting method as its template for every future zone determination.
Poster

Return the Slip, Lose the Objection

Kwame Lindqvist, Ingrid Vasseur, Mirela Hanke · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.n6h5x4

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities replicates an earlier University confirmation-step null result at fourteen shire development-application planning offices, finding objections lodged per hundred notified properties fall from 9.4 to 3.1 within twelve weeks of a signed confirmation slip's introduction, concentrated almost entirely among first-time objectors.
Poster

Towards Full Assurance

Marek Solheim, Torun Ezeigwe, Casimir Beng · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.y8f9jx

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities scores 48 community sporting clubs against a five-level working-with-children-check administration maturity model across three audit rounds in one season, finding assessed tier tracks the days remaining to the next audit (r = 0.71) more closely than any independent record of onboarding practice, and that clubs below Level 4 are 2.6 times more likely to drop a marginal volunteer from the roster in the following fortnight.
Poster

Special Is Surplus

Solveig Adeyemi, Thandiwe Solberg · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.0bnh3j

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement matches one food truck's daily chalkboard special against its own walk-in fridge's stock log across an eight-week trading window. The specials board tracks the stock log's single soonest-to-use-by item on 34 of 37 observed trading days, and the University's Capability Sprints program adopts the match as recommended practice for other small food-service traders.
Ad

Cash Only, Case Study

Torun Ezeigwe · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.sbrb18

A marketing poster for the School of Continuous Improvement features Dr Torun Ezeigwe, Director of the Master of Applied Measurement, whose case study follows one food-truck-row duty officer's improvised paper tab during a lunch-rush EFTPOS outage into a teaching note and marking rubric that every food-service placement student must now pass.
Paper

Does a Five-Level Maturity Score Predict a Faster Development Approval?

Mirela Hanke, Casimir Beng, Bram Ntuli · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.vm68jf

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement scores seventy-one council development-assessment teams across three states against a five-level maturity ladder, then checks attained level against independently audited decision timeliness and tribunal outcomes. Ladder level predicts assessment-file length closely and either outcome not at all, and a state planning department has since restricted its self-certifying fast-track pathway to councils at Level 4 or above.
Poster

Counted in the Chat, Missed on the Calendar

Petra Umbile, Marek Solheim, Anouk Mensah · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.sb5vvk

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities logs peak fire-emoji counts against booking-app fill times for 58 school holiday-program sessions across a full season, finding no measurable association between how a session's announcement is received in the parents' group chat and how quickly its slots are booked. The chat's reaction tally still opens the program's weekly capacity report unchanged.
Poster

Towards a Typology of Borrower Kinds

Petra Umbile, Renke Sabel · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.xumx53

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities sorts fourteen months of loan entries from four community sheds' honesty ledgers into a five-category taxonomy of borrower kinds, coded independently and locked before any policy change. Two of the five kinds --- ledger-avoider and serial non-returner --- now trigger a standing co-signature requirement for every future loan across all four sheds, with no review path short of leaving and rejoining.
Paper

Kerbside Waiting Sorts Into Four Recurring Types

Anneke Tolan, Verity Marris, Mirela Hanke · September 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.m3d7w2

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities and the School of Continuous Improvement develops and validates a four-category taxonomy of kerbside waiting posture across twelve sites, each combining a school pick-up line, a bus stop, and a car park. At seven sites, a local traffic office has adopted each vehicle's dominant classified posture as the basis for a fixed kerb-zone eligibility licence, and the share of episodes coded in the licence-favoured category rises sharply at licensed sites relative to unlicensed comparison sites.