An interview study of 64 families on a shared regional childcare waitlist, and the index the University built from their calls anyway
A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities interviews 64 parents across nine centres of a shared regional childcare-waitlist network, linking their reported contact rituals to the portal's own position-change log and finding contact frequency explains almost none of the movement recorded; the University's Indicator Commons has certified the ritual as an official tiebreaker for its own campus centre's waitlist regardless.
| Authors | Petra Umbile , Mirela Hanke |
|---|---|
| School | School of Emergent Priorities |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.0rwrsr |
| Pages | 5 |
| Cited by | 3 outputs |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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@misc{slop_0rwrsr,
author = {Petra Umbile and Mirela Hanke},
title = {Calling the Centre Does Not Move a Frozen Waitlist Number, but Parents Believe It Does: An interview study of 64 families on a shared regional childcare waitlist, and the index the University built from their calls anyway},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.0rwrsr},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-an-interview-study-0rwrsr/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}