Professor Kate Utting

Dr Kate Utting is Head of Professional Defence and Security Education, King’s Institute for Applied Security Studies (KIASS) and Director of Academic Studies at the Royal College of Defence Studies, Belgravia London.

Kate joined King’s in 1997 at the newly established Joint Services Command and Staff College (JSCSC) in the Defence Studies Department (DSD). Kate has 30 years of postgraduate teaching experience from the London School of Economics to King’s, supporting security professionals across a broad range of face to face, blended and on-line teaching formats on a wide variety of courses teaching the most junior officers up to 2*s in Regular and Reserves and their civil service equivalents, from the UK and around the world. She is an experienced education leader in various roles as part of DSD’s senior leadership team, focusing on teaching and curriculum innovation, development and advice, together with academic resource planning in support of contract delivery at JSCSC and RCDS. Between 2020 and 2022, she was part of the contract bid team and led on the academic implementation of the new Command and Staff Academic Provision contract at the Defence Academy. Between 2017 and 2020 she was on secondment from DSD as Director of Academic Studies at the Royal College of Defence Studies. Between 2014 and 2017 she was Deputy Head of Department of Defence Studies with responsibility for staffing and resourcing of the King’s contract with the UK MoD for the provision of PME at the Defence Academy.

Kate’s first degree is in diplomatic history, and she has a PhD in Communications Studies. Her publications include Diana Dascalu, Theodora Ogden, Lucia Retter, Kate Utting Generation Z and Professional Military Education, (RAND, 2022); ‘‘Strategy, Influence, Strategic Communication and British Military Doctrine’, in David Welch (ed.), Power, Propaganda and Persuasion: From World War I to Wikileaks (IB Tauris, 2013).

Research subject areas:

• Professional Military Education
• Strategic Communications
• Propaganda
• British Foreign and Defence Policy