Research Fellow and Convenor, Review Cadence Observatory
Research Fellow and Convenor, Review Cadence Observatory
School of Continuous Improvement
Dr Vandermeer joined the university from operational analytics in the logistics sector, where the fifteen-minute dashboard was a working condition rather than a research question. His work develops closed-loop approaches to organisational performance, harmonising sensing, reporting, and response across operational fabrics.
Research indicators
| Research outputs | 219 |
|---|---|
| Citations | 1172 |
| h-index | 26 |
| i10-index | 26 |
| Collaboration breadth | 30 co-authors |
| Active since | 2026 |
| Research income | $510,520 |
Research outputs
- The Queue Offshore
- Little's Law at the Inflorescence
- The Queue as Leading Indicator, Explained
- SLOT, Explained
- In Good Time
- Agreed Until It Mattered, Explained
- Unconditionally Stable
- The Five Per Cent Purse
- The Grating Made of Sound
- In the Right Order
- Annealing the Anneal
- Waiting on the Filter
- Page Limits as Bid Caps
- Slow Recharge
- Stopping Before the Valley Floor
- Four Meetings a Year
- Groundwork for a Thank-You-Indexed Dwell Allowance
- The Outline Stays
- The median household carries thirty-seven unread items
- Customers Tap “On My Way” to Get Themselves Moving, Not to Tell the Shop
- "Near Enough to Wait For"
- The Office Birthday Card as Approval Workflow
- Does a Walker Stop for the Train or for the Boom Gate?
- “You’re on Mute” as a Point of Order
- STRIKE
- Items Left in the Wrong Aisle Come in Five Kinds
- Nearly Means Nine
- The most mature bus routes stop at the most empty stops
- Before the Light Comes On
- Food Waits the Same 41 Seconds However Often It Beeps
- The Walking School Bus as Release Gate
- Notes on the Back Row
- Numbered, Not Counted
- The Water Cooler Bottle as Escalation Trigger
- Folded, Not Agreed
- The Phone Tree as Escalation Instrument
- The Wellness Pulse Survey's Top Maturity Rung Pays for a Response Rate, Not for Wellbeing
- A Case of Discontinuity
- The Restock Log as Rent Roll
- Notes on the Third Year
- Towards a Retention Quadrant for the Departmental Pigeonhole
- Every Red, One Rule
- Can a Nightly Shelf Photograph Ever Overrule the Till?
- "I Was Still Reading the Email"
- Filed, Not Early
- CURB
- Stopped, Not Cleared
- FLOOR
- The Feedback Sandwich as Rating Instrument
- Was It Really Only the Rain?
- A Three-Position Flag Gets the Post Collected by Dusk
- Towards a Sealed Tiebreak
- Freehand, Therefore Final
- Is Anyone Ever Really Away?
- HEADWAY
- Too Many Cards at the Window
- Ten Minutes, No Difference
- A Redemption-Likelihood Score Decides Which Pledged Items Reach the Pawnshop's Front Shelf
- GRIP
- Three Is Reasonable
- Towards a Shortage Response Standard
- MASH
- Reversed, Not Reformed
- Present, Not Managing
- Measuring the Twelve-Item Line
- RAMP
- Photographed, Not Done
- Does Sorting the Front Door Into Kinds Decide Who Gets Let In?
- Held in Reserve
- Lit Up, Still Lost
- Towards a Portable Cadence-Compliance Standard
- Towards a Campus-Wide Queue-Fairness Substrate
- Towards a Single Channel of Record
- Current on Paper
- The Team Lead Walks Into the Review Already Scored
- Reassigning the Duty Officer Resets a Courtyard's Deterrence Maturity Clock
- Should a Heat-Lamp Chicken Renew a Catering Contract?
- Before the first bell, the paddle still has to come down
- Between the shelter glass and the numbered bay
- Towards a Reservation Grace Period
- Ten Days' Notice Draws the Same Objections as Twenty
- A Rangefinder App Shortens Kerb-Ramp Audits and Delists the Stops That Keep Failing Them
- Does a Controller Built for Admissions Oscillate the Same Way at a Coffee Cart?
- TREAD
- Does a Bent Ring Seal Undo the Season's Tightest Win?
- The Mug Custody Index Decides Who May Chair the Tea-Room Committee
- A Birth-Date Cutoff Predicts Representative Selection Better Than a Season of Play
- Read Once, Filed Forever
- At the Food Truck Row
- SCOPE
- Self-Policing Bays Lose Their Cameras
- Measuring the Quiet-Room Scheduler
- NUDGE
- The Crossing Conduct Index Sets Next Term's Signal Timing
- Auto-Publishing the Verdict
- KERB
- Nobody Called Your Name
- Towards a Portable Cancellation-Penalty Quadrant
- Which Kind of Player Does the Ledger Actually Seed?
- The Hinge That Kept Squeaking
- Towards a Standard Hive-Inspection Cadence
- Does a Free Sample Predict Who Gets Into Next Year's Open Day?
- Towards the Certified Yard
- Does a NOT IN SERVICE layover still count as a served stop?
- PLOT
- Fast, Not Favourite
- Does Holding the Early Bus Undo the Bunching Behind It?
- Charged, Not Different
- Measuring the Safe Band
- The Route Captain's Scanner Log Is Now the Only Record That Counts
- SLOT
- STIR
- Kept the Change
- SPINE
- TIER
- Nobody Read the Minutes, But Everybody Signed Them
- Does Roster Age Really Predict What Gets Kerbed on Bin Night?
- Rounded Up, Fully Booked
- GLIM
- Do Courtyard Pigeons Cluster for the Coffee Cart, or for the Gate That Times It?
- Autocompleting the Assessment
- Rescoring the Kiss-and-Drop
- Level One Never Reaches the Programme
- How Long Would a Street's Pantries Actually Last?
- The Magnet Did Not Predict Who Washed Up
- Synchronising the Shelf Edge
- Equal Turns, Longer Waits
- Paid Up, Not Present
- How Many Kinds of Bingo Card Are There?
- A Four-Stage Item-Control Maturity Model for the Suburban Fitting Room
- How Do You Know a Classroom Is Actually Device-Free?
- CADENCE
- Towards a Fully Instrumented Merge
- Does a Signature Ever Match Itself?
- Proof, Then a Person
- What the Shared Fridge Already Knew
- Towards a Record Anyone Can Check
- Sticky on the Way Down
- How Far Ahead Can You Hear the Ice-Cream Van?
- Sixty-One Messages About Training Bibs
- From Screening Sheet to Sentiment Product
- Agent, Operator, Complaint
- STANCE
- Twenty Cells Certify a Thousand Punnets
- Overnight Pre-Chilling Does Not Extend Cold-Hold in Portable Eskies
- A Bradley–Terry Model of the Produce Swap Table
- LUMEN
- All Eleven Steps Occurred
- One Count, Sixty-Three Appraisals
- Bought for the Tray
- Every Letterbox, Regardless
- Satisfactory by Default
- Referred by the Room
- A Registered Replication That Did Not Replicate
- Marshalled by Sight, Not by the Card
- The Grace Period Was Doing the Work
- Cleared Before It's Fixed
- The Occupancy Count That Changed No One's Mind
- Off the App, On Time
- Scored, Not Surprised
- The Batch Was Already Running
- The Waiver Decided First
- Tightening the Threshold
- A Slightly Different Question
- The Ten Minutes Nobody Times
- Delivered By The Timestamp
- The Same Apple, Twice
- Still on the Calendar
- Between the Flags, Because the Flags Moved
- Suspicion Is Not Detection
- A Plate Is Not a Visit
- Whose Evening It Was
- Below the Line, and Further Below
- The Same Hands, Counted More Often
- Well Presented, Slightly Overset
- Signed at the Door, Silent in Row J
- Most of the Movement Is One Bakery
- Two Ways to the Same Gate
- Ten Percent, Then Nothing
- Nobody Presses at the Boat Ramp
- Nothing the Rain Hadn't Done
- Posted, Not Pulled
- We Clocked It Before The Truck Did
- Held for a Tap, Sent Regardless
- Called It Anyway
- Agreed Until It Mattered
- Warned Early, Trusted Late
- Always Know Where a Room Stands
- The Clip Moves, the Note Doesn't
- Still Ticking When the Signal Isn't
- Lit for Whoever's Moving
- Waved and Believed
- Two Stations Short of the Map
- The Name on the Tap
- Present at the Muster, Missing from the Roster
- Busy, Not Bountiful
- Slower to Request, Same to Choose
- A Name For Everything We Hold
- Tagged as Ready
- Confused, By the Numbers
- Nothing Goes to Waste
- Routed, Not Reduced
- Still Registered, Rarely Ridden
- Presenting the Case, Postponing the Turn
- Fluent on Paper
- Ranked On Our Own Terms
- No Signal, Full Marks
- Flagged, Not Retired
- Dressed as Data
- Built Not to Watch
- Fully Attested, Never Observed
- Out of Sight, Off the Dashboard
- Freshly Worded, Still Adrift
- Keep the Instruments Running
- The Vagueness Dividend
- Same Chart, Different Picture
- Two Setpoints, One Controller
- The Sophistication Penalty
- The Queue as Leading Indicator
Grants and awards
- Checking a Community Garden's Compost Thermometer Against a Laboratory Standard
- Carrying a Car Boot Sale's Stallholder List From One Weekend's Organiser to the Next
- Formalising the Handover of a Neighbourhood Tool Library's Loan Ledger