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

Why We Turn It Off

Torun Ezeigwe, Solveig Adeyemi, Marit Osayande · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.jga0gs

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement interviews 47 staff across twelve break-room sites of a single facilities provider, finding that staff route around an auto-reordering supply shelf's own accounting once its weekly consumption report begins setting a departmental stationery budget. A parallel firmware recalibration aimed at the sensor's false-trigger rate leaves the frequency of logged staff overrides unchanged.

Poster

Filed, Not Fixed

Ronja Oyelaran, Lindiwe Achterberg, Iben Chikere · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.nzbjw8

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities links eighteen months of a council pool portfolio's robotic-skimmer exclusion-zone breaches to two competing records: which shift-supervisor rotation was rostered at each breach, and an independently audited severity score. Filing volume tracks the rostered rotation far more closely than it tracks audited severity, and only the two highest-filing rotations saw their exclusion zone redrawn.

Poster

The Tier the Fob Doesn't Know

Kwame Lindqvist, Runa Adegoke · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.3znmr3

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities classifies 1,842 gym members on a locker key-fob return-promptness band against the commitment tier their membership app assigned at sign-up, finding the tier predicts a member's own band little over a third of the time and worst of all in its own "Elite" band.

Poster

Scrubbed, Not Watched

Ingeborg Nwachukwu, Dagny Okafor · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.lsmiy7

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement pairs a national retail franchise's onboarding-video completion flag against player-side scrub telemetry across 6,400 viewings and 214 stores, finding three in ten "completed" viewings fall under a fifth of runtime actually watched and that a platform-wide check-in-prompt rollout only worsened scrubbing on Workplace Conduct and Reporting content.

Ad

Read The Band Before The Verdict

Ingeborg Nwachukwu · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.wfzezt

A marketing poster for the School of Continuous Improvement carries Capability Sprints' Reading the Dashboard unit onto the University's landscape signage, staged around a paper report with a row of coloured bands and a rising line chart on a screen behind it. Six words of display type over a two-ink evening-study scene, prepared for the landscape rotation in matched daylight and after-dark renderings.

Ad

Everyone Is In The Photo

Thandiwe Solberg · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.6zqhfp

A marketing poster for the School of Continuous Improvement carries Dr Thandiwe Solberg, Senior Lecturer and Convenor of Demo Quarter, onto the University's landscape signage, staged in a school hall on photograph day beside the folding chair nobody took. Five words of display type over a class arranged in rows, prepared for the signage rotation in matched daylight and after-dark renderings.

Ad

Half The Members Work Here

Kwame Lindqvist · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.rcq3zf

A marketing poster for the School of Emergent Priorities carries the Master of Priority Studies onto the University's landscape signage, staged at a supermarket register where a shopper without a loyalty card is offered one belonging to the shop and a household is entered into the retailer's member records without anyone intending one. Five words of display type over a two-ink checkout scene, prepared for the landscape rotation in matched daylight and after-dark renderings.

Paper

Nobody Typed the Blocker That Mattered

Thandiwe Solberg, Casimir Beng, Dagny Okafor · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.4e2id5

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement reports a single-site case study of an eleven-person release-engineering team's move from a face-to-face daily stand-up to an async status bot, finding the bot's five-term keyword blocker flag agreeing with an independent panel only slightly (kappa = 0.20) and missing three-quarters of the panel-identified blockers, which then took four times as long to close as the ones the bot caught.

Paper

Put Something Through

Dagny Okafor, Ingeborg Nwachukwu, Bram Ntuli, Torun Ezeigwe · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.cr26mi

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement interviews 31 staff across 22 inland branches of one member-owned mutual banking network, each held on a viability schedule computed as counter transactions per opening hour, about the shifts they had most recently worked. Reflexive thematic analysis of the transcripts produced 81 codes and four themes, with the codebook stable from interview 24. Eighteen of 19 counter staff and 11 of 12 managers described a standing category of counter work that produces no posted transaction, and 84 per cent of counter staff against 42 per cent of managers described entering a nominal transaction so that an otherwise unrecorded visit would appear in the day's record, a practice participants framed as accuracy rather than adjustment. All 12 managers and regional coordinators identified the framework's own first remedy, a reduction in opening hours, as the point after which the score ceased to recover. Reanalysis under a second independently developed codebook moves the mean codes applied per transcript by 0.5 and leaves the four-theme structure intact.

Paper

The Whiteboard Kept Its Own Count

Marit Osayande, Sten Okwuosa · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.gcgcti

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement reports a difference-in-differences evaluation of a same-day digital-update bonus across 41 aged-care facilities, finding a large rise in digital-logging compliance and no measurable change in the divergence between the digital booking record and the facility's handwritten front-desk whiteboard.

Paper

Two Adults, Up to Three Children

Lindiwe Achterberg, Iben Chikere, Ingrid Vasseur, Kwame Lindqvist · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.gi4cf1

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities treats the eligibility rule of one state zoological authority's family admission, two adults and up to three children, as a hypothesis about the parties arriving at its ticket windows, and tests it against the authority's own gate records. Latent class analysis of 214,806 admission transactions across three sites over one financial year, on six indicators of party composition and arrival, selects a five-class solution (BIC minimised at five classes; entropy 0.83; bootstrap likelihood ratio test p < 0.001 against four and p = 0.31 against six). The pair-with-children class the rule describes accounts for 21.4 per cent of transactions against 66.6 per cent admitting at least one child, so the rule can hold 32.1 per cent of the parties arriving with a child; the authority's reported family-visitation share for the year was 18.9 per cent. Median admission paid per person admitted is $21.30 in that class and $28.90 in the single-adult-with-children class the product excludes by construction, while the subsidised-entry program's annual allocation is set at 12 per cent of the reported share. Re-estimating on party composition alone moves no class prevalence by more than 0.4 percentage points, and the solution reproduces at every site and in every quarter.

Paper

Sold More, Won More

Verity Marris, Anouk Mensah, Kwame Lindqvist · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.y25dxn

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities examines the annual Luckiest Outlets list one state lottery operator publishes, in which retail agents are ranked by a recency-weighted count of division-one winning tickets sold. The list heads the operator's retail communications, is marked at each ranked agent by a window decal, and enters the annual network review at which agents are considered for display placement, priority stock and co-funded refit. Across 1,412 agents, 260 draws and 237 division-one prizes over five years, winning-ticket counts are accounted for by ticket volume alone: a Poisson model with a volume offset leaves no residual overdispersion (1.04, 95% CI 0.91 to 1.19), and the 41 agents reaching the list's three-win threshold sit inside a chance prediction interval of 27 to 51. The ordering does not persist. Mean Kendall's tau between consecutive annual top-fifty lists is 0.03 (95% CI -0.02 to 0.08), overlapping the 0.04 (95% CI -0.01 to 0.09) returned by lists generated under the fitted chance model; removing the operator's recency weighting moves the figure by 0.004. The authors read the list as a ticket-volume ranking with a year of sampling variation applied, and point to precision-scaled presentation and shrinkage as remedies already available.