Dr Kunika Kakuta is a senior quality officer at the FoLSM Education Services. Responsibilities includes: organisation of operational planning across the programme cycle and quality assurance framework to both College and professional regulatory and frameworks; coordination, review of programme monitoring, responding to quality concerns. Prior to joining King's, she worked as Liaison and Project Manager in a NHS Trust overseeing clinical placement to another London Medical School.

Prior to working in medical education, she completed her doctorate in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, graduating in 2022. Her thesis was a comparative analysis of naval identity as strategy in Classical Athens and Imperial Japan. She was supervised by Professor Andrew Lambert and Dr Alessio Patalano. She continues to be part of the Laughton Naval Unit. Her research interest is naval history (in particular Imperial Japan and Classical Athens), naval strategy, and maritime security.