Dr Feary is an Honorary Respiratory Consultant in occupational lung disease and asthma at Royal Brompton Hospital and Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, a combination of roles that allows her to carry out clinical work and research as well as teaching. Her research is primarily focused on the respiratory heath of working populations including firefighters and individuals exposed to silica. She is the current Chair of the British Thoracic Society Specialist Advisory Group on Occupational and Environmental Lung Disease and a member of the Group of Occupational Respiratory Disease Specialists (GORDS).