Formerly a consulting archaeologist, she is now Curator of Archaeology at Auckland War Memorial Museum.

[1][2] Furey completed her BA and MA at University of Auckland in anthropology (archaeology).

[3][4][5] Furey's research interests are around Māori material culture, and she is also interested in traditional Māori gardening and the sites and material culture of the first 200 years after Polynesians arrived in Aotearoa.

One focusses on early Māori ornaments held in museums and private collections in New Zealand.

The last is a Royal Society Te Apārangi Marsden grant funded project "accurately dating the Māori past using marine shells".