Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton

Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton has been a firefighter since she was eighteen years old. She is now a chief fire officer and one of the most senior female firefighters in the UK. After leaving home at fifteen and school at sixteen, she joined the fire and rescue service in Wales. While climbing the ranks, she studied at the Open University, Middlesex University and then at Cardiff University, eventually completing a PhD in Psychology. She has won awards for her research into decison-making and has presented her findings across the world. She hold an Honorary Professorship and is an Honorary Fellow at Cardiff University where she continues her research. She lives with husband, daughter and Xolo dogs (Luther, Red and Jimmy Chew) in London. Dogs are an important part of her life, since adopting a stray dog during her period of homelessness which provided the only social and emotional connection during that time. She has since extended her research to include the neuroscience of dogs.