Research posters

Research posters published by Slop University.

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Published outputs

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Settled With a Nod

Thandiwe Solberg, Ingeborg Nwachukwu, Solveig Adeyemi · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.t9pa13

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement follows 1,148 items marked with tape by purchasers at 96 new-build handover walk-throughs across four estates, each photographed and numbered independently on the day and then tracked for twelve months against the builder's own handover record. Dwellings carry a mean 6.2 recorded items against 12.0 observed and the two counts rank close to unrelated (Spearman ρ = 0.19); 596 of the 1,148 items reach no list at all. Rectification within twelve months reaches 78.4 per cent of listed items against 31.2 per cent of those settled verbally on the day (adjusted hazard ratio 3.41, 95% CI 2.88 to 4.04), and site managers in the top quartile of the builder's build-quality indicator recorded a median 4.1 items on walk-throughs where 11.8 were observed.

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Called In, or Not Called In

Ingrid Vasseur, Petra Umbile, Lindiwe Achterberg · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.2jg3i6

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities examines how the weekly auction clearance rate published by one metropolitan real-estate industry body is assembled, drawing on 34 semi-structured interviews with selling agents, auctioneers and the body's own reporting staff across 11 agencies, and on non-participant observation of 412 on-site auctions over nine Saturdays in which every outcome was recorded independently of the agency's return. A reflexive thematic analysis, with the coding frame lodged before any observed outcome was matched to a published return, yields five reporting categories and no residual: 118 of the 412 observed outcomes (28.6 per cent) never reached the Sunday figure, and interviewees describe reporting throughout as an act of presentation rather than of record. Recomputed on every observed outcome, the published rate sits a median 8.1 percentage points above the rate the same weeks would carry.

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Where the Hammer Landed

Petra Umbile, Torun Ezeigwe, Anneke Tolan · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.skexq0

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities decomposes the single surface-hardness reading a regional junior football association requires before play, taking 3,744 drop readings across 26 venues at twelve positions per ground, on six half-hourly occasions, by two blind assessors over nine winter Saturdays. In a crossed random-effects generalisability design, position within the ground accounts for 41.8 per cent of total variance and hour of the morning for 22.3 per cent, against 14.9 per cent for the ground itself and 11.6 per cent for the assessor. A single reading taken exactly as the protocol specifies has a dependability coefficient of 0.28 against the association's 110-gravity threshold, and two assessors taking it twenty minutes apart return calls on opposite sides of that threshold at 8 of the 26 venues. A decision study puts a nine-position, two-occasion design at the conventional 0.80 floor with no additional equipment.

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Counted Once, Funded Less

Solveig Adeyemi, Sten Okwuosa, Joost Nwosu · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.sxwqok

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement reports a cluster-randomised trial across one metropolitan council's twelve-month community-grants round, in which 62 funded groups were allocated 1:1 at award either to a hand tally counter issued with a one-page distinct-person definition or to the standard acquittal form, and 248 acquitted events were returned under the council's single self-reported engagement figure. Trial-arm groups report a median 152 people per event against 236 in the control arm (adjusted incidence rate ratio 0.63, 95% CI 0.52 to 0.77, ICC 0.11) and sit a median 6 per cent above an independent concurrent observer where control-arm returns sit 68 per cent above; re-derived on the program's own cost per participant, 12 of the 31 counted groups fall a renewal band against 2 of 31 controls.

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Enrolled, and Already Attending

Mirela Hanke, Kwame Lindqvist, Joost Nwosu · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.rquf65

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement prices what enrolment in one veterinary group's preventive-care plan adds to the care an animal would have received anyway, setting 1,606 enrolled dogs and cats against 3,206 matched unenrolled animals across 22 clinics and 24 months of clinical and billing records. Enrolled animals receive 4.7 preventive interventions per animal-year against 3.9 for their matched comparisons, an increment of 0.8 (95% CI 0.5 to 1.1), so the plan's $462 annual fee costs $578 per additional intervention against $214 for the same interventions bought individually. A one-way sensitivity analysis puts the estimate under the control of baseline attendance, the one quantity the group's monthly sign-up indicator does not observe.

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Sorted Four Ways, Filed as One

Ronja Oyelaran, Anneke Tolan, Dagny Okafor · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.719k99

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities recovers the shared accounts residents hold of a fruit-tree branch crossing a back fence, the highest-volume intake category at one metropolitan council's neighbour-mediation service. Sixty-eight residents across 34 adjoining property pairs sorted a 48-statement Q set drawn from a 311-item concourse into a forced quasi-normal grid; by-person centroid extraction with varimax rotation retained four factors accounting for 61 per cent of explained variance. The four accounts treat the branch as a boundary matter, a hazard, a harvest, and an amenity respectively, and none reduces to another; only two of the 48 statements draw consensus, both procedural. All 34 files carry the same single issue type, and 71 per cent close as resolved with no recorded change at the fence.

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Room on Paper

Ingrid Vasseur, Lindiwe Achterberg, Anouk Mensah · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.lckm8v

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities locates on the ground every plot that four metropolitan council cemeteries carry as unsold, and tests each against the council's own published siting rules. Across 3,412 register-unsold plots surveyed over eleven months by two independent assessors, 1,986 (58.2 per cent) can be opened; the largest single deduction is not physical but 611 pre-purchased reservations dating from 1961 to 1994 and still counted as available, 486 of them with no current contact recorded. Canopy and root zones account for a further 342 plots, services easements and drainage 218, and access lanes and setback failures 255. At the observed rate of 214 interments a year, remaining capacity falls from a published 15.9 years to 9.3, placing the council's below-ten-years land-acquisition trigger roughly eight months before the survey closed rather than 5.9 years ahead of it.

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Shopping, or Just Parked

Runa Adegoke, Ingrid Vasseur, Mirela Hanke · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.pp7zyj

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities links twelve months of entry-lane plate-read sessions at one suburban shopping centre to the staff-permit, trade-access and long-stay exemption registers the same operator already maintains. Just under a quarter of the session-hours counted as shopper dwell resolve to those registers; excluding them lowers mean dwell from 97 to 69 minutes and reorders five of the six trading windows the centre's leasing committee ranks.

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Ranked Under One Convention

Iben Chikere, Marek Solheim, Anouk Mensah · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.9d8yvs

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities re-derives the club grading ladder and representative-squad selections a metropolitan district cricket association computes from returned paper scorebooks, across the full space of scoring conventions its rule book leaves open. From 4,186 batting innings transcribed row by row over 118 matches, 22 volunteer scorers and ten clubs in one season, six convention factors crossed exhaustively yield 1,152 defensible specifications. The published ladder is one of them and not the modal one: median displacement is two grading positions, seven of the ten clubs occupy a promotion place under at least one specification, the club promoted in second place holds one in 41.3 per cent of them against 33.8 per cent for a club that was not promoted, and 31 of 44 representative selections change under at least half the space. The association's competition-integrity indicator counts scorebooks returned rather than scorebooks that reconcile: 94.6 per cent were returned, while 61.4 per cent carried at least one row the conventions cannot resolve.

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Suspicion Is Not Detection

Ingeborg Nwachukwu, Sten Okwuosa, Osei Vandermeer · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.peh6gr

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement decomposes the indicator one metropolitan council reports for its scam-awareness program, the share of scam messages residents correctly flag, into sensitivity and response criterion. 220 residents across six community halls judged a fixed 42-item message set (21 genuine, 21 scam) at baseline and again at eight weeks, 18,480 judgements in all. Correct flagging of scam messages rises 17.6 points to 88.9 per cent and the council's indicator rises with it, while flagging of genuine messages rises 23.2 points to 46.1 per cent. Under an equal-variance signal-detection model sensitivity is unchanged (d-prime 1.31 to 1.32, 95% CI of change -0.11 to +0.14) and the criterion moves -0.65 (95% CI -0.74 to -0.56), so the reported gain is entirely a shift in where residents draw the line rather than in what they can tell apart. At eight weeks 41.4 per cent flag a pharmacy's script-ready notice and 49.5 per cent a school absence notice as scams, and 34 per cent report having ignored a message in the interval that later proved genuine.

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Between the Flags, Because the Flags Moved

Anneke Tolan, Runa Adegoke, Osei Vandermeer · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.o7sz75

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities codes post-shift interviews with patrol captains at 18 patrolled beaches into a six-category taxonomy of flag-placement rationales, matched against the between-the-flags compliance figure each of 214 shifts returned. Crowd-led placement accounts for 38.3 per cent of set-ups and averages 88.3 per cent compliance against 61.4 for hazard-led placement, with compliance and independently rated hazard coverage mildly opposed across the season.

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Step-Free to the Door

Anouk Mensah, Lindiwe Achterberg, Ingrid Vasseur · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.oxmu2l

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities audits all 88 venues one metropolitan council's hire listing calls accessible, sending two trained auditors on unannounced simulated-hirer visits inside published opening hours across 14 weeks and scoring the arrival stage by stage against the listing's own claim. The arrival completes at 34 venues (38.6%, 95% CI 28.4-49.6): 8 fail on the approach or in the car park, 6 at the front entrance, 21 on the internal route to the hired room, and 19 at the accessible toilet, 11 of which were in use as storage. Agreement between auditors on the end-to-end outcome is 28 of 30 re-audited venues (kappa 0.86), and 84 of the 88 annual self-assessment returns are accurate on the single field the listing is built from, while the council's access-and-inclusion indicator has read between 96.6 and 100 per cent for eleven consecutive quarters against a target of maintaining it above 95.