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What the Number Was For

Mirela Hanke · October 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.jw361c

A short profile of Dr Mirela Hanke, Postdoctoral Fellow and Deputy Convenor of the Living Dashboard, told largely in her own words. Dr Hanke describes how a number adopted to inform a decision comes to make it, and then to stand in for the goal, and follows that pattern through three of her most-cited papers: a cafe franchise's tip-screen friendliness score, a vending-machine upgrade credited on its installation day, and a gym chain's booking-reliability score. The video also marks her citation record, with an h-index that no other postdoctoral fellow at the University has bettered.
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Credited, Not Flexible, Explained

Lindiwe Achterberg, Casimir Beng, Anneke Tolan · October 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.hanzym

A research explainer from the School of Emergent Priorities on Lindiwe Achterberg, Casimir Beng and Anneke Tolan's regression-discontinuity study of a shift-rostering app's weekend fairness-credit threshold. It follows 438 casual and part-time staff at 24 outlets to the line where the app stops offering weekend shifts, and sets the appraisal language on one side of it beside the other. Achterberg, Beng and Tolan describe the work in their own words.
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The Ticket Confirms What the Marshal Already Called, Explained

Ronja Oyelaran, Fenna Okoro, Casimir Beng · October 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.m2mw7f

A research explainer from the School of Emergent Priorities on Ronja Oyelaran, Fenna Okoro and Casimir Beng's taxonomy of queue-order disputes at airport taxi ranks. It follows the argument over whose turn it is from ranks run on a marshal's call to ranks with a numbered-ticket dispenser, and shows where the disputes the ticket doesn't settle go. Oyelaran, Okoro and Beng describe the work in their own words.
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CMI, Explained

Dagny Okafor, Casimir Beng, Bram Ntuli · October 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.1u6zxa

A research explainer from the School of Continuous Improvement on Dagny Okafor, Casimir Beng and Bram Ntuli's Calibration Maturity Index, a five-level instrument for scoring how a performance-review calibration session is run. It follows 156 sessions at a professional-services firm from their attained level to an outside panel's blind re-scoring of the employees behind them, and on to the bonus pools the firm now sets by the level alone. Okafor, Ntuli and Beng describe the work in their own words.
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Between Two Auger Holes

Brynjar Obiora · October 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.lkeuow

A short profile of Dr Brynjar Obiora, Senior Research Fellow in the School of Underlying Conditions, told largely in his own words. A soil surveyor of twelve years' standing, Dr Obiora describes the question at the centre of his research: where one soil ends and the next begins when the ground changes by degrees, and who decides. The film also marks his seed grant to renew the survey's soil colour book, one page at a time, and a body of work that reaches well beyond the pit.
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Where the Credit Lands

Sten Okwuosa · October 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.wxdp1l

A short profile of Dr Sten Okwuosa, Convenor of the Impact Pathway Atlas, told largely in his own words. Trained in bibliometrics, Dr Okwuosa describes how the Atlas maps what happens to a finding once it is published, from the citation that arrives late to the narrative CV that recasts an old result and the credit that lands on the wrong paper. The film also marks his Deposit of the Quarter Prize and a body of work that travels well.
Explainer

Fit to Be Seen, Explained

Eivind Onwuka · October 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.421c18

A research explainer from the School of Continuous Improvement on Eivind Onwuka's doctoral thesis on the household tidy before visitors. It follows 25,033 moves in 61 households to the one room in each that took most of them, asks the visitors what they noticed, and sets out the trial from which the University's Closed Door Allowance is drawn. Onwuka describes the work in his own words.
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The Queue as Leading Indicator, Explained

Casimir Beng, Osei Vandermeer, Anneke Tolan · October 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.4ek2jf

A research explainer from the School of Continuous Improvement on Casimir Beng, Osei Vandermeer and Anneke Tolan's two-year study of campus coffee-cart queues and the University's international ranking. It follows the depth-sensor readings from nine carts to the March 2024 queue peak that preceded the September 2024 ranking rise, then sets out the closed-loop pilot the team proposes. Vandermeer, Tolan and Beng describe the work in their own words.
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Have Your Say

Ronja Oyelaran · October 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.lzzov6

A short profile of Dr Ronja Oyelaran, Senior Lecturer in the School of Emergent Priorities, told largely in her own words. A former adviser to a state planning authority, Dr Oyelaran traces what becomes of the views a consultation invites, from a bus-stop comment box that counts every slip as a completed consultation to a smoke-alarm survey in which the word "working" meant six different things. The video also marks her research funding, among the ten highest at the University, from the Anticipatory Capability Fund.
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Who Reads the Board

Marit Osayande · October 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.kr9iit

A short profile of Dr Marit Osayande, Convenor of the Living Dashboard, told largely in her own words. Recalling a transit authority's status board that ran for years with no one assigned to read it, Dr Osayande describes how she now follows an organisation's boards, from staff-photo boards in childcare foyers to roadside fuel-price boards and aged-care front-desk whiteboards, from the day they go up to the day nobody looks. The film also celebrates a body of work cited right across the University.
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Named, Not Restocked, Explained

Casimir Beng, Joost Nwosu, Mirela Hanke · October 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.utss8f

A research explainer from the School of Continuous Improvement on Casimir Beng, Joost Nwosu and Mirela Hanke's term-long test of Directly Responsible Individual placards on meeting-room whiteboard-marker caddies. It follows the weekly audit from the labelled caddy to the nearest stationery cupboard, then sets the caddy's stocked-rate beside what staff came to believe about it. The authors describe the pilot, the pairing and the survey in their own words.
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Past the End Date

Lindiwe Achterberg · October 2026 · doi:10.5555/slop.a7anfg

A short profile of Dr Lindiwe Achterberg, Lecturer in the School of Emergent Priorities, told largely in her own words. A former evaluator of pilot schemes, Dr Achterberg follows the trials that keep going past their end dates, from a demountable classroom still temporary decades on to an audit of relocated bus stops, pop-up lanes and other temporary traffic measures in which only nine per cent closed on schedule. The video also marks her research funding, the third-highest at the University, across two Anticipatory Capability Fund grants.