Azeez Adewale Hamzat · Doctoral researcher
Across communities and institutions, I investigate how knowledge becomes a decision, whose voices shape it, and what helps groups reason and act intelligently together.
TCD-TUD SOHAM CentreParticipatory and computational researchDublin, Ireland
The path into the question
My route into collective intelligence began in agriculture, where good decisions depend on local knowledge that institutions can easily overlook.
That path began in Nigeria, where I studied agricultural science at LAUTECH, and continued through a master’s degree in Collective Intelligence at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Morocco.
I am now a doctoral researcher at the TCD-TUD SOHAM Centre in Dublin, examining information diversity, influence, and collective accuracy in group decision-making, including when AI becomes part of the process.
I combine qualitative and computational approaches: participatory research, fieldwork, Python, R, data science, and agent-based modelling.
The disciplines have changed, but the question underneath them has not: how can groups make better decisions without losing the knowledge that makes them diverse?
See the questions shaping my workResearch
These are the threads shaping my work. They cross collective intelligence, agricultural knowledge, technology, and institutional decision-making.
My doctoral research examines information diversity, independent judgement, influence, and collective accuracy, including when groups use AI systems.
My master’s research used community knowledge methods to surface perceptions and experience that formal assessments often miss.
Digital advisory systems can extend access while quietly replacing local observation with uniform recommendations.
Anticipatory governance raises a collective-intelligence question: whose knowledge shapes the futures institutions prepare for?
Research in practice
Some research questions need more than a paper. They need a working environment where ideas can be tested, inhabited, and improved with real people.
Independent project · Live
A private collective-intelligence environment for small, trusted groups who want to understand one another clearly, coordinate meaningful support, and keep what they learn together.
It turns capacity, needs, offers, decisions, failures, and shared memory into useful signals without turning relationships into productivity metrics or public performance.
Selected work
Research and writing connecting local knowledge, collective intelligence, climate equity, and the institutions that shape shared futures.
Independent manuscript
A self-directed research manuscript submitted for publication. Its analysis and findings are not being shared publicly while the editorial process is ongoing.
Research paper
A community-centred assessment of how smallholder farmers in Nigeria understand cluster farming, and where local perception diverges from institutional assumptions.
Book chapter
A chapter on anticipatory governance in African innovation systems and the distributed knowledge that institutions include, or leave out, when planning for the future.
Field notes
Essays on collective intelligence, knowledge systems, technology, agriculture, and the unfinished questions around them.
Rivals increasingly depend on shared forecasts, standards, and infrastructures while competing to make their preferred tomorrow feel inevitable. What happens when the future becomes a commons?
Read the essayIn almost every group I have watched make a bad decision, someone in the room knew better. The failure was rarely one of knowledge. The knowledge was present, and it never made it into the room. On the social cost of disagreeing, and why welcoming dissent is not the same as making it cheap.
Read the essayA community is gathered, invited to share views, carefully documented, thanked. Then the project proceeds exactly as it would have without them. The consultation happened. The participation did not. On the gap between having a voice and having influence.
Read the essayEducation
2025 to present
TCD-TUD SOHAM Centre · Dublin
Doctoral fellowship investigating how AI affects group decision-making, information diversity, and collective accuracy.
2020 to 2022
Mohammed VI Polytechnic University · Morocco
Ibn Rochd Excellence Scholarship. Thesis on community knowledge in Nigerian farming communities.
2009 to 2014
Ladoke Akintola University of Technology · Nigeria
Foundation in agricultural science, environmental systems, and field research.
Contact
I’m interested in thoughtful conversations about collective intelligence, agricultural knowledge systems, responsible technology, and cross-cultural research collaboration.
Email Azeez