Sustained provisionality and its resolution in nine volunteer-run clubs
A doctoral thesis from the School of Emergent Priorities photographs every notice on display at nine volunteer-run clubs across eleven months, then follows the 269 arrangements those notices marked as temporary through nineteen further months of monthly visits and 34 interviews. Arrangements whose marking named an end-point were confirmed as permanent at more than twice the rate of those that did not while their rate of reversion was unchanged, and the thesis recommends the University enter every pilot, trial, interim measure and acting appointment on a published register whose entries are confirmed as permanent automatically, without override, at an unresolved review date.
| Authors | Tove Ilesanmi |
|---|---|
| School | School of Emergent Priorities |
| Output type | PhD thesis |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.4c32gb |
| Pages | 136 |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
Cites
- What Do Volunteers Mean When They Say It's "Ready"?
- Towards a Maturity Model for Allotment Waiting Lists
- Does the Lock Close the Loop?
- Towards Report-Blind Triage
- Measuring Urgency Against Civility
- Carried Forward, Unopened
- A Birth-Date Cutoff Predicts Representative Selection Better Than a Season of Play
- SCOPE
- BLINK
- LEND
- Towards a Verified Redemption Benchmark
- When Is a Kitchen Sponge Mature Enough to Throw Away?
- Towards Full Assurance
- Kerbside Waiting Sorts Into Four Recurring Types
- Towards Statewide Auto-Escalation
- CHEST
- How Ready Is Ready Enough?
- SCORE
- Confirmed by Silence
- Most Raffle Tickets Are Sold by a Few Volunteers
- Nobody Read the Minutes, But Everybody Signed Them
- Does Roster Age Really Predict What Gets Kerbed on Bin Night?
- Most Temporary Traffic Measures Never Revert
- Auditing the Shortfall
- Declared, Not Forgotten
- How Mature Is Your Committee?
- Measuring Committee Continuity
- Waiving the Quiz
- The Jar That Stopped Filling
- Agent, Operator, Complaint
- The Pilot Is the Program
- Quorate by Attrition
- Three Classes, Six Answers
- Six Diaries Hold the Season
- The Notice Is the Repair
- Pruned Before It Could Climb
- The Regular, or Whoever Was Available
- Contested at 110 Centimetres
- The Door Still Remembers You
- The Rule Nobody Re-Read
- Whoever Checked the Chat Last
- Displayed, Not Metered
- It Didn't Cross the Concourse
- Sited, Not Chosen
- Validating the Corral Occupancy Sensor
- Still Interim
- The Schedule Waters Regardless
- Minuted Into Certainty
- Flagged, Not Retired
- The Queue as Leading Indicator
Cite as
@phdthesis{slop_4c32gb,
author = {Tove Ilesanmi},
title = {Until Further Notice: Sustained provisionality and its resolution in nine volunteer-run clubs},
year = {2026},
school = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.4c32gb},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-thesis-until-further-notice-4c32gb/},
}