If you are a father or stepfather of South Asian heritage (this could include a heritage connection to India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and /or Bangladesh) to children under the age of 18 then please consider volunteering for our research aimed at understanding a father's role in the South Asian population. 

The research aims to record and understand how South Asian fathers interact with their young children and participate in childcare. This is an unresearched area and your participation will help us to better understand how men in the South Asian population embrace and perform their identities as fathers. 

The project has been approved by the Newcastle University Ethics committee and your data will be processed following the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the university's ethical research guidelines. You will not be named in the research as all entries will be anonymized and treated with utmost confidentiality.  

Taking part will involve: a daily digital journal entry, spread over seven days, which should take no longer than 5-10 minutes to complete; and an optional follow up interview, to discuss and reflect upon your journal entries.  

If you would be interested in taking part, please email raksha.pande@ncl.ac.uk  

Research Team : Dr Raksha Pande (Principal Investigator) and Abigail Hardcastle (Research Assistant) , Newcastle University.