Ranked, Then Reordered

An Interview Study of How the Community-Garden Waitlist Actually Clears

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities interviews 22 households who moved off the University's community-garden waitlist onto a plot, checking their own account of how they advanced against the published Stewardship Priority Score. Neither self-reported reason nor measured wait time separates households above and below the list's median score, with directly asking the rostered convenor dominating both halves alike.

@misc{slop_qe42zi,
  author       = {Ingrid Vasseur and Lindiwe Achterberg},
  title        = {Ranked, Then Reordered: An Interview Study of How the Community-Garden Waitlist Actually Clears},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.qe42zi},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-waitlisted-gardeners-describe-qe42zi/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}