[3] As a producer or director, she was involved in Walking with Beasts, Life in the Undergrowth, Bang Goes the Theory, Climate Change by Numbers and Trust Me, I'm a Doctor.

[6] In 2016, Freeman joined the University of Cambridge as executive director of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication in the Faculty of Mathematics.

[8] In 2021 Octopus received a grant from Research England to develop the platform into a global service.

[1] She had applied for the role after hearing a member of the House of Lords speak on the radio about the need for more peers who could understand scientific evidence.

[10][11] She was created Baroness Freeman of Steventon, of Abingdon in the County of Oxfordshire, on 5 June 2024,[12] and was introduced to the House of Lords on 29 July as a crossbencher.