Schools

The schools, units, and research groups of Slop University.

Slop University's schools sit directly under the University. Each is home to the research groups and programs listed below.

School of Continuous Improvement

The measurement-and-process school. Home of the Adaptive Metrics Lab. Its outputs favour evaluation, optimisation, and capability framings.

13 researchers

The research-strategy school. Home of the Trajectory Analytics Group. Its outputs favour foresight, alignment, and anticipatory framings.

12 researchers

Adaptive Metrics Lab — The School of Continuous Improvement's flagship lab, convening work on how measurement systems are designed, calibrated, and fed back into the processes they track. Its output anchors the School's evaluation-ecosystem agenda, extending from single indicators to whole-of-university dashboards.
Trajectory Analytics Group — The School of Emergent Priorities' flagship research group, convening work on how priorities are sensed, tested, and carried through into durable institutional commitments. Its output anchors the School's anticipatory-capability agenda across settings from single labs to whole-of-university footprints.

Office of Research Outputs — The producing unit credited (rotated margin wordmark) on every research poster and paper: the university's organ for the manufacture of research-shaped objects, named without comment. Not a school; roster researchers are never affiliated to it.
Office of the Vice-Chancellor — The University's executive office, holding final delegated authority over what is published under the institution's name. Not a school; it convenes no research and no roster researcher is affiliated to it. Generated artefacts may invoke the office --- a foreword, a delegation, a signature block --- but never its occupant by name.

Capability Sprints — The short-course and executive-education line. Named Sprints include Leading with Metrics, Reading the Dashboard, Stewarding Indicators, Deciding Under Measurement, and Improving Improvement.
Master of Applied Measurement (MAM) — The School of Continuous Improvement's flagship Masters program. The acronym "MAM" is used only in space-constrained contexts.
Master of Priority Studies — The School of Emergent Priorities' flagship Masters program, preparing graduates to sense, sequence, and steward priorities across institutional settings.

Demo Quarter — The quarterly Masters-program showcase.
Evaluation of Evaluation (EoE) — The meta-review program.
Futures in Committee — The School's seminar series.
Horizon Register — The School's rolling account of priorities on approach.
Impact Pathway Atlas — Traces how research effort becomes counted impact, mapping outputs through citation flows and narrative-CV pathways to their eventual recognition.
Improvement Grand Rounds — The School's seminar series.
Indicator Commons — The shared indicator library.
Living Dashboard — The School's always-on self-measurement wall.
Review Cadence Observatory — Monitors the rhythm at which the School's programs, labs, and initiatives return for review, surfacing when a review cadence has drifted from what its own indicators would set.
Strategic Drift Survey — The annual instrument tracking the distance between stated and enacted priorities.

Institute for Measurable Outcomes — The School of Continuous Improvement's predecessor institution; the School traces its origins to it. Historical references only; never conflate with the School.