SALMA AKTER Surma (She/Her/Herself)

PhD Student and GTA ( Graduate Teaching Assistant)

The Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture, University Of Oklahoma. USA

               Planning, Design and Construction - Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture (ou.edu) 

                                                                                                          Contact:s.surma@ou.edu

Principle Architect

Volume11, Chittagong, Bangladesh

                    surma.arch@gamil.com;

                  Salma Akter (researchgate.net)             

 https://surmasustainlehumansettelemnt.blogspot.com/ 

                 https://www.slideshare.net/SalmaAkter4

                                                                  Salma Akter Surma - AD Scientific Index 2022 

I am a social safeguard architect and human settlement concerned. My operational parameters have been aligned with the cities' and communities' sustainability since 2006 when I began working with 'community-engaged' people.' My research primarily concerns the marginalized and migrants, based on collaborative, cross-disciplinary, and community-oriented approaches. I graduated in Human Settlements 2017 with distinction, and a 'dean award' from Khulna University, Bangladesh. I earned my B. Arch. Degree from the university as mentioned above in 2006. I am currently working as a Graduate teaching assistant at the Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture, University of Oklahoma. Also, I have a Ph.D. in Planning Design and Construction in the institutes mentioned above.

After spending nearly, a decade (from 2006 to 2015) working on plot architecture, I expanded my professional experiences from plot architecture to urban architecture by accomplishing my post-graduation in Human Settlements. I work with multi-dimensional people, including marginalized and disadvantaged, to design and develop healthy, safe, resilient communities. My career vision is to contribute to SDG11 and associated SDGs, e.g., SDG13 and 15, in the context of Bangladesh. Primarily. In line with this, I have participated in many national and international hands-on experiences on community-driven development, ecosystem services, climate change, and gender and greening the economy. I am primarily eager to work on the quality of life of grassroots communities.  

As a social safeguard architect and academician, I am eager to investigate three specific inquiries throughout the sustainable human settlements fields, these are a) How planners/architects/ humanitarian community can build more planning approaches and methods for designing resilient built environments for migrants' well-being through infrastructures' life span analyses; b) How can community adaptations be effectively linked with Government policy to address national adaptation plans?; c) How to develop adaptive Governance with indigenous Resilience dealing with disaster shocks? My single-minded goal is to achieve the highest academic and professional degree in migrants' well-being by planning and designing safe and resilient built environments focusing on infrastructure justice. I have set three specific scopes of application for my advanced study:

1. It would be designing built-natural environment interactions.

2. People-place relationships and human-environment interactions.

3. Governance, public policy, and power relation (refugees' context).

My commitment, skills, and passion for the subject research make me a suitable, appropriate professional and candidate for the social safeguard architect.