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Ndugelo Trevar PhophiAnthropology · Human Behaviour · AI

Consulting

Directions this work is being built towards.

These are stated interests rather than a service catalogue. They describe where academic research and applied practice are intended to meet as this career develops, and the kinds of collaboration I am open to exploring.

Areas of interest

Behavioural insights

Understanding what people actually do inside a service, and why the designed path and the used path diverge.

Human-centred AI

Bringing evidence about real behaviour into the specification of AI products, before assumptions are hardened into code.

Digital trust

Diagnosing where trust is built, lost and repaired across a digital service, and what accountability would need to look like.

Healthcare innovation

Anthropological perspectives on care, authority and adoption in clinical and digital health settings.

AI governance

Testing frameworks and principles against the people they claim to protect, particularly in African contexts.

Customer experience

Qualitative depth where analytics stops: the reasons behind the behaviour a dashboard can only count.

Research strategy

Helping organisations decide which questions are worth answering, and which method will genuinely answer them.

Human research

Ethical, rigorous qualitative study design, fieldwork and analysis for teams without in-house social science.

Principle

The organisations worth working with are the ones willing to have their assumptions about people tested.

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