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

Poster

The Report Names Nobody

Ingrid Vasseur, Ronja Oyelaran, Marek Solheim · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.ptihzp

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities interviews 58 store managers, shift supervisors and counter crew across 31 stores of one bakery-café franchise network over nine months, and reads the 214 below-threshold mystery-shop reports those stores had answered. None of the 214 reports names a member of staff; 208 of the responses filed against them do, and where a name is supplied the store's own roster confirms that person's presence in the recorded visit window in 34 per cent of cases. Five moves account for every filed response: reconstructing the roster rises from 21 to 58 per cent between a store's first below-threshold report and a repeat in the same quarter, while holding the matter over to the next visit falls from 27 to 4 per cent, and the median response is filed 3.2 hours after the report lands, 41 minutes before the report's own single-visit reliability note is first opened.

Poster

On Rotation, Not on Risk

Runa Adegoke, Anneke Tolan, Ingrid Vasseur · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.gu7voz

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities observes 1,212 pre-shift toolbox talks at 40 construction site gates over sixteen weeks and codes each talk's card against the hazard entries the site lodged in the preceding seven days. Card selection is strongly associated with the site's position in its rotating card library and weakly associated with its own recorded hazards, while the coverage figure the principal contractor's performance is acquitted on holds at 97.8 per cent and signatures exceed the observed headcount at 38 per cent of talks.

Poster

Referred by the Room

Ingeborg Nwachukwu, Solveig Adeyemi, Osei Vandermeer · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.cp0q9k

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement sets 26 months of free hearing-screening outcomes at 44 pharmacy sites, 61,908 screenings in all, against the shopfitting completion dockets that relocated the screening booth at 19 of them. Referral rate steps 6.8 percentage points in the month of a move (95% CI 5.0 to 8.6) and holds for the remainder of the panel, while the 25 sites whose booth stayed put show no break; booth position accounts for 41 per cent of between-site variance in referral rate against 4 per cent for the screening operator. Protocol, referral threshold and staff rosters were unchanged across the break, and a site falls a median of seven places on the group's published service scorecard in the quarter after a refit.

Paper

A Quick Visit Scores Best

Sten Okwuosa, Joost Nwosu, Torun Ezeigwe · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.9xmvu7

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement fits a mixed logit to 12,432 choice observations from 1,036 residents living near a kerbside stop on one council's four mobile library routes, expressing every trade-off in minutes of additional walking. Residents accept 11.3 extra minutes for an after-work arrival window and 2.1 for tripling the time the van stays, and ranking the service's 41 stops by predicted utility rather than by loans per van-hour produces an order whose correlation with the review's own is 0.14.

Paper

Nobody Stayed Longer

Fenna Okoro, Iben Chikere, Petra Umbile · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.u1gkii

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities surveys the managers of 156 coastal holiday and caravan parks in one regional accommodation association, 118 of whom responded, on why a peak-season minimum stay is set, and links the responses to five consecutive peak seasons of booking records released by 64 member parks. The association's published mean length of stay rises from 4.12 to 5.63 nights across the window while the 18,342 households booking the same park either side of a rule change differ by 0.07 nights, a difference statistically equivalent to zero against a pre-specified margin.

Poster

The Slow Keg Holds the Line

Thandiwe Solberg, Marek Solheim, Ingeborg Nwachukwu · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.y0voyc

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement follows 318 tap-line tenures across 26 licensed venues for fourteen months, censusing every tap board weekly against the venues' own keg delivery and return dockets, and models the two ways a line can end as competing outcomes. Lines carrying local product end in keg exhaustion in 29 per cent of cases by day 60 against 87 per cent of lines carrying everything else (subdistribution hazard ratio 0.24, 95% CI 0.18 to 0.33), the balance being rotated off part-full. Every venue satisfied its half-of-taps local-share condition at each of the 41 inspections in the window, over a period in which local product accounted for 19 per cent of poured volume, and no venue type reached 41 per cent local by volume.

Ad

A Limit Shaped Like A Ute Tray

Bram Ntuli · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.ey03zk

A marketing poster for the School of Continuous Improvement takes a state forest firewood collection gate at first light --- a timber boom across the gravel, a ute at the rail with its tray stacked level in split logs --- and puts Dr Bram Ntuli behind the limit written on the household permit. The campaign's point is that a season quota expressed as one level tray is a property of the vehicle rather than of the forest, so the removal total the managing agency keeps is assembled from whichever fleet arrives at the gate. Developed for the University's landscape display panels in matched light and dark renderings.

Poster

Warmed on Paper

Ronja Oyelaran, Anouk Mensah, Kwame Lindqvist · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.1ib784

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities allocates 36 occupied floors across four buildings in one managed commercial portfolio to three conditions for six months: a 1.5 °C setpoint rise, a printed notice at every kitchenette and lift lobby setting out the 21.0 to 24.0 °C band the lease promises, or no change. The contracted Occupant Comfort Index rises 10.4 points on the setpoint floors and 9.6 on the notice floors, against 1.1 in the control, a difference between the two active arms of 0.8 points (95% CI -2.9 to 4.5). Mean desk-height temperature, recorded by 288 loggers at five-minute sampling, shifts 1.42 °C under the setpoint change and 0.04 °C (95% CI -0.11 to 0.19) under the notice, so both arms discharge a comfort clause written against the index rather than against the air.

Poster

The Trophy Goes to the Smallest Sample

Ingrid Vasseur, Lindiwe Achterberg, Sten Okwuosa · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.yhp74e

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities recomputes a junior sports association's most-improved award rule across ten seasons of per-game returns from 24 clubs and 1,914 registered players. Recipients' first-half averages sit a median of 2.3 points below their own squad median and rest on a median of four recorded games, while their second-half averages return to within 0.5 points of that median in nine of ten seasons. Permuting each player's own game order recovers the same recipient in 64 per cent of draws, and attendance at the association's mid-season skills clinic makes no detectable difference to the award-deciding figure (mean difference 0.1 points, 95% CI -0.4 to 0.6).

Paper

Two Dollars Is Not a Signal

Joost Nwosu, Renke Sabel, Casimir Beng · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.iluyix

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement fits individuals and moving-range charts to eighteen months of end-of-shift cash-drawer counts at 34 suburban hospitality venues, covering 37,208 closes across 68 drawer streams. The natural process limits run from minus $7.93 to $7.71, placing the group's fixed $2.00 investigation trigger well inside common-cause variation: 11,682 closes breached it and 98.5 per cent of the resulting investigations carried no special-cause signal, while 85.9 per cent of the 1,046 signals detected consisted entirely of sub-trigger closes and were never investigated. Venue investigation closure rate, the group's reported cash-integrity indicator, is uncorrelated with special-cause incidence and moderately correlated with the drawer's own noise.

Brochure

One Hour, Entered as Three

Ronja Oyelaran, Torun Ezeigwe, Bram Ntuli, Iben Chikere, Solveig Adeyemi · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.iy69hf

A civic brochure built around the household as instrument operator: the supervised-hours logbook kept at a kitchen table, and the exchange rate underneath its required total, where an hour with an accredited instructor is entered as three. It sets the Trajectory Analytics Group, the Adaptive Metrics Lab and the University's open seminar program beside three published findings on records that were read as more than they held.

Ad

Tested Before Anyone Swam

August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.6zjuhk

A marketing poster for the School of Continuous Improvement carries the University's own Evaluation of Evaluation standing onto the landscape display panels, set against a public pool in the hour before opening: still water, taut lane ropes, and an attendant holding the day's sample vial up to the light. The campaign stakes the placement on logging when a compliance reading was taken rather than on what it said. Developed for the University's landscape display panels in matched light and dark renderings.