Ruma Akter has been working in the field of social research for around 5 years, in both field level & management level. Ruma started with DATA in 2020 as a Field Research Officer, she has started her career at management level with DATA as a Research Assistant in August, 2024 and continuing till to date. She has sound knowledge on questionnaire development, facilitating training to the enumerators, writing report etc.

As a Research Assistant, Ruma has experience of working in the process of questionnaire development, facilitating training to the enumerators, conduct focus group discussion (FGD), key informant interviews (KI) and reviewing literature, analyzing data and drafting the report etc.

Beside of that, she involve with facilitating training to the enumerators, survey management & coordination, field monitoring and documentation of work progress, contribute the reporting process of the survey project, participate in Training of Trainers (ToT), and take part in formative research for questionnaire development of survey project.

Ruma was involved with the enumerators’ training process of the most of the surveys that DATA undertakes in last one year.

Ruma has experience of working in different steps of both hardcopy and device based survey. Ruma, holds a Master of Social Science (MSS) from Govt. Kumudini College, Tangail.