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Dear Soo, We are in the middle of a chaotic reorganisation in which Nursing and Midwifery has been merged with Allied Health Sciences and Police Studies! Our Associated Dean for Research has been disestablished and they have appointed an Optometry Researcher as Associate Dean for the whole school. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and doubtless very distinguished in his lab, but neither knows nor cares about health services and public health research. I wouldn't expect him to know the difference between nurses and midwives. Meanwile, we have got a grant from Research for Patient benefit for the Barkantine birth centre evaluation and I keep getting appriaches from paediatircs in the medical school for collaboration. Obstetric research is a big black hole - I think wallet-based health care in Harley St and the London Bridge Hospital is their main external interest. For the effects of the above on midwifery eductaion, ask Dora. The one bit of good news in this chaos, is that the School has been subdivided into three clusters, nurses in one, allied health sciences and the coppers in another and the third is midwifery, public health and primary care, food policy, applied psycho-social sciences and health management. Best wishes, Alison Alison Macfarlane Department of Midwifery City University 20 Bartholomew Close London EC1A 7QN Phone (0) (44) 207 040 5832 Fax (0) (44) 207 040 5866? Email [log in to unmask]