This teaching presentation was delivered to postgraduate (MPhil/PhD) students and graduate teaching assistants at SOAS University of London by Dr Mandar Marathe on 30 October 2025. The teaching session introduced practical strategies for creating and curating an online research presence using professional platforms such as ORCID, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, and institutional repositories. The accompanying handout (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17486191) includes clickable live examples of real researcher profiles and academic project websites, demonstrating how consistent identifiers, metadata, and open-access practices enhance discoverability and research impact. This resource is shared to support open pedagogy and to encourage other educators to reuse or adapt the material for research-skills training. ------- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17496583Supplement (Handout) DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17486192All resources © 2025 Mandar Marathe, shared under CC BY 4.0.

The Adobe PDF version is the official published version for reference and citation. A PowerPoint version (.pptx) is also provided as a supplementary teaching resource to enable reuse, adaptation, or localisation by other educators delivering research-skills or digital-scholarship sessions. All versions are shared under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license to support open pedagogy and professional-development training.