Research posters

Research posters published by Slop University.

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Published outputs

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Agreement Without Resolution

Torun Ezeigwe, Solveig Adeyemi, Joost Nwosu · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.kwilvd

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement has three accredited assessors score 384 recorded calls to one water utility's contact centre against the twenty-item rubric from which the centre reports its service quality, with the item weights and the resolution coding frame fixed before the first call was drawn. Assessor agreement is near-total (ICC 0.91, 95% CI 0.89 to 0.93), while the score's association with resolution at fourteen days, coded from the utility's own works records by a blinded coder, is 0.04 (95% CI -0.06 to 0.14). Two of the twenty items, whether a next step was set with a date and whether the fault was raised as a job, carry 15.5 per cent of the rubric's points and 70.1 per cent of the explained variance in resolution.

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Six Days, or Two Hundred and Forty-Seven

Runa Adegoke, Anneke Tolan, Ingrid Vasseur · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.nvrzoq

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities recomputes the days-since-last-lost-time-injury counter displayed at one principal contractor's sites, working from three years of injury, roster and return-to-work records across nine sites: 213 site medical entries and 61 return-to-work notes. Twelve definitions of lost time, varied on shift-loss threshold, treatment of modified duties, and weekend and rostered-day-off handling, were lodged before the records were opened. Readings on the study's final day span 6 to 247 days, and the contractor's own published definition returns the highest of the twelve. Rebuilt from the contractor's published weighting, the prequalification rank order of its 33 subcontractors changes under eleven of the twelve definitions, moving a median of nine places.

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The Streets That Waited Also Slowed

Dagny Okafor, Lindiwe Achterberg, Joost Nwosu · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.iklbx3

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement recomputes what one metropolitan council's traffic-calming programme reports it achieves, taking the 61 streets that qualified across four rounds and were deferred for budget as an untreated comparison arm against the 26 that received speed humps. Treated streets fall 4.8 km/h in 85th-percentile speed between the qualifying tube survey and the 18-month re-survey while the deferred streets fall 3.1 km/h over the identical window, leaving 1.7 km/h (95% CI 0.6 to 2.8) attributable to treatment; applied to the deferred arm, the programme's own reduction-achieved formula returns a reduction in 55 of those 61 streets.

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Twelve Minutes Played, Four Hours Recorded

Runa Adegoke, Anouk Mensah, Sten Okwuosa · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.2a606w

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities observes 214 graded music examinations across fourteen community venues over one winter round, attributing every recorded minute to one of seven roles and one of nine artefacts on a list fixed before the first venue. Median playing time is 11.6 minutes against 217 minutes of recorded person-time per candidate, or 18.7 person-minutes for every minute played; reconciling the examinations-completed return on which the venues are funded takes 22% of that total, while the examination and the examiner's written report together account for 14%.

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Certified, Believed, Ajar

Torun Ezeigwe, Marit Osayande, Iben Chikere · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.c4u2t9

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement tests the gates of 386 registered backyard pool barriers across six metropolitan districts, releasing each from 150 mm and from full open on release heights and a pass rule fixed before the first site visit. 91.2 per cent of addresses hold a certificate recorded as current and 88.9 per cent of householders describe the barrier as compliant, while 54.4 per cent of gates self-close and self-latch on all three trials; the register and the householder agree substantially with one another (κ = 0.71) and with the gate at close to chance (κ = 0.06 and 0.09).

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Everybody Comes, Nobody Joins

Ronja Oyelaran, Anouk Mensah, Fenna Okoro · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.nmarfj

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities matches 14 suburban bowls clubs that took up barefoot-bowls nights against 17 clubs in the same metropolitan district that never ran one, using seven years of association annual returns and 2,140 transcribed booking sheets. Adopting clubs lose 2.4 playing members per club-year relative to their matched comparisons (95% CI -4.1 to -0.7) on flat pre-trends, while the counted participation that weights the district's green-maintenance allocation rises 4.1 times and Saturday rink-hours available to members fall from 71 to 48 per cent.

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Different From Its Neighbour

Ingrid Vasseur, Kwame Lindqvist, Iben Chikere · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.hjuy54

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities classifies the front elevation of 2,148 completed dwellings across nine covenanted land releases in three growth corridors, matching every lot to the design-review file that approved it. The approved palettes list 26 to 41 façade schemes per release against an effective number built of 3.3 (range 2.6 to 5.1); the five-lot anti-repetition covenant is satisfied at 98.6 per cent of 9,204 eligible windows, against 95.9 per cent under 10,000 random re-orderings of each street's own built stock, while the panel records design-variation compliance at 99.5 per cent.

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The Ruler Was Still on the Boat

Runa Adegoke, Ingrid Vasseur, Kwame Lindqvist · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.jmvuan

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities randomises 1,914 launches across 26 boat ramps in four estuary districts, fitting a free measuring sticker to the gunwale on treated ramp-days and scoring undersize retention by independent creel survey at the cleaning bench. Retention is 6.8 per cent with a sticker against 7.1 per cent without, reported as a null, and the districts' published compliance rates hold between 94.1 and 96.3 per cent throughout on inspections rostered from the previous season's rate.

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Signed at the Door, Silent in Row J

Osei Vandermeer, Solveig Adeyemi, Thandiwe Solberg · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.3eb908

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement measures audio-frequency induction-loop field strength at 1,140 seat positions across 19 cinema screens at six sites of a single exhibitor, on a sampling lattice and conformance band fixed before the first site visit. 37.0 per cent of positions fall within the ±3 dB band, none of them behind row F, and the median position in the rear third sits 9.1 dB below reference, while every screen carries a current signature in the exhibitor's accessibility register.

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The Tag Was Legible

Torun Ezeigwe, Marek Solheim, Ingeborg Nwachukwu · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.0bd84d

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement follows 640 potted plants bought at retail price from 22 garden centres of one hardware chain through 52 weeks of follow-up in the buyer's home, coding death against the chain's own returns criterion. Median survival is 21 weeks, the three water categories printed on the pot tag do not separate, and the store-level merchandising-audit score that rates tag presence, legibility, and placement carries no association with hazard; 71.2 per cent of deaths fall inside the twelve-month replacement window.

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Cheaper Not to Ask

Sten Okwuosa, Bram Ntuli · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.twnkzp

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement costs the three-quotation requirement at 38 residential strata schemes, timing 1,904 tasks across 412 works orders handled by four managing agents over 19 months. Obtaining the third quotation carries a median cost of $486 against a median saving of $214; it is the accepted quotation in 8.7 per cent of orders and arrives after the committee's decision is minuted in 31.2 per cent, while the agents' compliant-procurement rate holds at 96.1 per cent.

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The Grade Stops at the Counter

Marit Osayande, Iben Chikere, Anneke Tolan · August 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.kum49s

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement follows 1,187 handsets traded in over the counter at 31 stores of one electronics chain, tracking each by asset tag through to the disposition its processing facility recorded over sixteen weeks. Disposition mix does not separate across the four lower condition bands (χ² = 8.4, df = 9, p = 0.49), which between them take 94.0 per cent of handsets; board harvest accounts for 63.8 to 65.3 per cent of every band below the top one, while the median credit offered across those four bands spans $186.