abstract: Research focus: Itai Nyamatore (left), Barbara Featherstone (centre) and Denise Henry each received a research bursary worth £6,250 last month as winners of the RCN's Mary Seacole leadership development award. Ms Nyamatore, strategic nurse manager at Northampton Primary Care Trust will look at supporting named nurses and care co-ordinators; Ms Featherstone, a modern matron at Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Trust, will try to improve mental health promotion among people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds with chronic physical conditions; and Ms Henry, a practice development midwife at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, London, will look at setting up and co-ordinating an integrated care pathway for women with female genital mutilation.