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Dr Rafi Rashid
Senior Lecturer
NUS Graduate School

Contact Information
Telephone: 66015840
Email: ngsrr@nus.edu.sg
Office: University Hall, Tan Chin Tuan Wing, #04-02, 21 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119077
Dr Rafi RASHID is a Senior Lecturer in the NUS Graduate School. He concurrently serves as a Teaching Fellow in Tembusu College (https://tembusu.nus.edu.sg/people/dr-rafi-rashid/) and as a Resident Fellow in Helix House (https://helixhouse.nus.edu.sg/about-us/residential-life-staff/).

He holds a PhD in Biophysics & Bioengineering and a BSc (Hons) in Life Sciences. He has two broad areas of research: mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacteria and strategies for enhancing PhD education. He has published papers on the role of lipids in mediating AMR in Enterococcus faecalis, rethinking PhD education in the 21st century, and desiderata for interdisciplinary graduate teaching, as well as two recent book and encyclopaedia chapters titled “Blended Learning and Interdisciplinarity” and “Interdisciplinary Doctoral Education”, respectively. He is Coordinator of the NUS Three Minute Thesis (3MT) programme, a collaboration between NUS Graduate School and the Centre for English Language Communication dedicated to preparing PhD students for the annual 3MT competition at the NUS, Singapore, and international levels.
Recent Courses Taught and/or Coordinated
  • NG5002 Research Ethics for Graduate Researchers
  • GS6883A Integrative Science & Engineering Research
  • UTC1123 The Nuclear Imagination
  • UTC2103/UTS2103 Health in the Community
Awards & Recognition
  • NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award (Individual) AY2025/2026
  • NUS Residential College Teaching Excellence Award (Individual) AY2025/2026
  • NUS Residential College Teaching Excellence Award (Team) AY2025/2026
Grant Projects Related to Education
  • 2026-2028 Principal Investigator. Generative AI as a Scaffold for Building Authorial Voice and Ethical Stance. Ministry of Education Tertiary Research Fund (MOE-TRF)
  • 2020-2022 Co-Investigator. Learning Community Project on MOOC Guidance and Development. Centre for Development of Teaching & Learning (CDTL) Teaching Enhancement Grant (TEG)
  • 2020-2022 Principal Investigator. Blended Learning for Journal Club. NUS PVO Learning Innovation Fund-Technology (LIF-T) Grant
  • 2019-2020 Principal Investigator. Microbiomes & Sustainability Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). NUS PVO Learning Innovation Fund-Technology (LIF-T) Grant
  • 2017-2018 Principal Investigator. Blended Learning for GS6883A Interface Science & Engineering. NUS PVO Learning Innovation Fund-Technology (LIF-T) Grant
Publications Related to Education
  • Rashid R (2026). Interdisciplinary Pedagogy in Practice. Teaching Connections Blog. https://blog.nus.edu.sg/teachingconnections/2026/04/23/2026-rrashid/.
  • Rashid R (2024). Interdisciplinary doctoral education. Elgar Encyclopedia of Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity, 304-308.
  • Rashid R (2024). Interdisciplinarity and blended learning. Handbook of Interdisciplinary Teaching and Administration, 278-293.
  • Rashid R and Szostak R (2023). Desiderata for Graduate Interdisciplinarity Teaching. Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies 41 (2), 101-126.
  • Rashid R (2022). A New Philosophy for 21st Century Postgraduate Education. Issues in Integrative Studies, 40 (1).
  • Rashid R (2021). Updating the PhD: Making the Case for Interdisciplinarity in 21st-century Doctoral Education. Teaching in Higher Education, 26 (3), 508-517. doi:10.1080/13562517.2021.1892624
  • Rashid R (2020). Triggering Online Discussions. Teaching Connections Blog.https://blog.nus.edu.sg/teachingconnections/2020/04/07/triggering-online-discussions/.
  • Rashid R (2020). Training STEM Ph.D. Students to Deal with Moral Dilemmas. Science & Engineering Ethics, 26 (3), 1861-1872. doi:10.1007/s11948-019-00174-4
  • Rashid R & Lim M (2020). Redesigning a PhD Course to Promote Interdisciplinarity and Cultivate Key 21st-Century Skills: An Exploratory Study. Asian Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 10 (2), 171-189.
  • Rashid R (2019). Cultivating 21st-century Skills in Interdisciplinary PhD Students. Asian Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 9 (1), 70-80.
Presentations Related to Education
  • Rashid R & Banta JL (2022). The Art of the Fast Pitch: Presenting Research in 3 Minutes. Higher Education Campus Conference 2022, NUS. (Accepted)
  • Rashid R (2021). Reforming a STEM Doctoral Curriculum to Promote Interdisciplinary Border-Crossing. Presented at Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Annual Research Conference 2021, UK (virtual conference).
  • Rashid R (2021). Making the Case for Interdisciplinarity in 21st-Century Doctoral Education. Presented at 3rd Katherine E. Welsh Symposium for Reforming Graduate Science Education: Preparing Critical Thinkers for Global Crises 2021, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (virtual conference).
  • Rashid R, Balasubramanian R & Williams R (2020). From Module to MOOC: Designing an Interdisciplinary Online Course on the Novel Theme Microbiomes & Sustainability. Presented at Online Higher Education Conference (e-HECC) 2020, NUS, Singapore.
  • Rashid R & Lim M (2019). Fostering interdisciplinarity through blended learning in ASCILITE 2019 - Conference Proceedings - 36th International Conference of Innovation, Practice and Research in the Use of Educational Technologies in Tertiary Education: Personalised Learning. Diverse Goals. One Heart, SUSS, Singapore.
  • Rashid R & Lim M (2019). Fostering Interdisciplinarity Through Blended Learning in. Presented at Higher Education Campus Conference 2019, NUS, Singapore.