Research posters

Research posters published by Slop University.

All research outputs of the University are published open access under CC BY 4.0, with persistent identifiers minted by the Office of Research Outputs.

Published outputs

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A Class Enters and Never Leaves

Marek Solheim, Ronja Oyelaran, Iben Chikere · July 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.jxwnjp

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities codes thirty printed schedules (1996 to 2026) and five entry books from one country show society's archive, recording for each of the 214 classes now listed in the cookery pavilion its admission year, admitting resolution, anchoring trophy and entries received. The schedule grows monotonically from 118 classes to 214 across thirty revisions, from 41 additions and four removals, every removal following a trophy donor's withdrawal and none following an entry count; 96 classes drew no entry across the five shows from 2021 to 2026, while twelve classes carry 77.4 per cent of the 1,458 entries recorded.

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Most of the Movement Is One Bakery

Bram Ntuli, Osei Vandermeer, Thandiwe Solberg · July 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.wdtr79

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement reconstructs a food relief network's annual meals-provided figure from 21,412 consignment records across 34 agency sites over two reporting years, then apportions its variance by first-order and total-effect Sobol indices. Reconstruction tracks the published figure to within 2.1 per cent, and a single donor's bakery-surplus collection schedule carries a total-effect index of 0.613, against 0.111 for the four inputs under direct network control.

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Six Names for the Same Crowd

Sten Okwuosa, Mirela Hanke, Renke Sabel · July 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.yrnz28

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement re-derives the six-segment buyer model an estate agency group assigns from open-home sign-in registrations, using the group's own k-prototypes specification on 48,206 registrations across 3,984 inspections and 27 sales offices over fourteen months. Median bootstrap cluster stability is 0.40 in the derivation sample and 0.31 on held-out registrations, with five of the six segments below the 0.5 mark at which a cluster is conventionally treated as dissolved, and 46.8 per cent of registrants change segment between consecutive quarterly refreshes (adjusted Rand index 0.19). Entered alongside a count of open homes attended in the prior ninety days, segment membership moves discrimination from 0.673 to 0.681, a difference whose confidence interval spans zero, while the group's allocation-coverage indicator records 99.6 per cent of registrations as segment-allocated throughout.

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Agreed by Attrition

Sten Okwuosa, Dagny Okafor · July 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.d5wet4

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement follows 31 playground inspectors across 14 councils through three anonymous Delphi rounds convened to fix the wear score at which a rubber swing seat is withdrawn from service. The pre-registered consensus criterion is met at round three with 11 panellists still responding, the interquartile range having fallen from 3.1 to 0.8; re-weighting the final round to the original panel's composition returns it to 2.9, and the inspectors who stopped responding had nominated a median threshold of 7.8 at round one against 5.6 among those who stayed.

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No Change in the Tin

Kwame Lindqvist, Fenna Okoro, Lindiwe Achterberg · July 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.pfhong

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities randomises the change float and the unit price at 58 roadside honesty-box stalls across four shire districts, in a two-by-two crossover covering 464 stall-weeks and 21,318 items removed. Payment shortfall falls 17.5 percentage points between the worst and best cells (22.6 per cent to 5.1 per cent; 95% CI 13.6-21.4), of which a coin float carries 11.8 points and whole-dollar pricing 6.3; stall identity explains 7 per cent of what remains, and 21 of the 24 stalls the districts' published honesty index lists as high trust keep a permanent float.

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Nobody Books the Hall

Iben Chikere, Solveig Adeyemi, Anouk Mensah · July 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.1emite

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities interviews 27 volunteer custodians at eight community halls across four regional councils and codes the transcripts against a frame closed before any booking extract was requested. A parallel four-week tally kept at the door records 247 uses against 62 in the councils' booking systems, and the hall scoring lowest on the booking-derived utilisation rate carries the most counted use.

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Screened Out Before the Chair

Runa Adegoke, Ingrid Vasseur, Ingeborg Nwachukwu · July 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.8d2viw

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities evaluates a blood collection service's appointment-yield indicator --- units collected per appointment attended, with a health-check deferral counted as a failed booking --- across 26 fixed centres, 214,806 booked appointments and eighteen months of staggered adoption. Difference-in-differences against not-yet-treated centres puts reported yield 5.7 percentage points higher (95% CI 3.9-7.5) with no detectable movement in whole-blood volume per centre-week (-1.4%; CI -4.0 to +1.2), while pre-booking screening calls rise 3.1 times and first-time bookings fall 18 per cent.

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Booked at 1.4, Timed at 2.2

Torun Ezeigwe, Bram Ntuli, Joost Nwosu · July 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.7n1ow6

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement times 1,318 logbook vehicle services element by element across six workshops over eleven weeks, holding observed elapsed time against the published flat-rate allowance that bills each operation. Observed time exceeds the allowance on 78% of services at a median ratio of 1.47, and elements the schedule represents nowhere --- parts-counter waiting, vehicle movement, hoist queueing and stamping --- account for 31% of attended time.

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Six Labels, Three Bands

Lindiwe Achterberg, Ronja Oyelaran, Petra Umbile · July 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.duve1d

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities has 41 swimming teachers blind-rate 312 recorded end-of-term assessments across nine centres of a metropolitan leisure-centre operator, collecting 1,248 ratings against the operator's six published learn-to-swim stages. Agreement is fair across the six stages and substantial once the scheme is read as three pre-registered bands, with agreement falling to 41.3% at Stage 3 and holding above 79% at the two endpoints; 62% of the stage advancements recorded in the window were single-stage moves inside a band.

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Sure, and No Better Than Chance

Iben Chikere, Ronja Oyelaran, Ingeborg Nwachukwu · July 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.95ai6g

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities catalogues 1,204 tagged items across 41 stalls at four suburban craft markets over nine monthly trading days, establishes provenance for 288 of them from supply invoices and a workshop visit, and asks four adjudicator panels to judge maker status from the item alone with the tag concealed. Calls are correct on 53.4 per cent of blinded items against an even baseline while mean stated confidence holds at 77.4 per cent, and the market association's local-maker share rises from 61 to 88 per cent over the same period without a measurable shift in what the stalls sold.

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Current by Photograph

Runa Adegoke, Fenna Okoro, Iben Chikere · July 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.yfhy05

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities audits the paper timetable panels at 246 suburban bus shelters across three depots at 30, 60 and 90 days after a network-wide service change, comparing the panel in each frame against the timetable actually in force. Agreement runs from 58.1 per cent at the first sweep to 68.1 per cent at the last, while the transport authority's information-currency indicator, assembled from crews' date-stamped installation photographs, records better than 99 per cent of shelters as current throughout. Adding a panel-content field to the crews' verification record produces a pooled difference of 2.4 percentage points, with a confidence interval spanning zero.

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Lit, and Within Spec

Lindiwe Achterberg, Dagny Okafor, Anouk Mensah · July 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.ulrdjm

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities scores a minibus fleet's dashboard tyre-pressure warning as a diagnostic test, recording the lamp's state at 4,318 pre-departure checks across 96 vehicles and eleven depots before gauging all four tyres cold against the placard pressure. Sensitivity is 82.3 per cent and specificity 71.5 per cent, but genuine under-inflation is present at only 4.6 per cent of checks, so positive predictive value holds at 12.2 per cent; the warning rate rises from 9.4 per cent of vehicles on mornings at or above 14 °C to 41.7 per cent below 6 °C, and the 1,284 driver attestations the lamp triggered are counted as completed safety checks.