Dean has worked as an assistant to a psychologist, she has worked for the National Trust, she has taught Creative Writing and worked for the Wordsworth Trust at Grasmere in the Lake District.
She showed early artistic talent and some of her surviving paintings are owned by Keswick School and held by the Wordsworth Trust.
National Trust | National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty | William Wordsworth | Wellcome Trust | National Trust for Historic Preservation | National Trust of Australia | Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute | The Prince's Trust | BBC Trust | Leverhulme Trust | Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust | Devon Wildlife Trust | Christopher Wordsworth | Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company | The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust | Terrence Higgins Trust | Saccharine Trust | Prince's Trust | Pilgrim Trust | NHS trust | New Zealand Historic Places Trust | National Book Trust | J. Paul Getty Trust | Trust law | Teenage Cancer Trust | Social Security Trust Fund | Russell Trust Association | Police Memorial Trust | Karachi Port Trust |
She has given poetry readings at The Royal Festival Hall (with Elaine Feinstein), Latitude Festival, the Wellcome Collection (with Don Paterson), St Hilda's College, Oxford (with Wendy Cope), the Wordsworth Trust (with Gillian Allnutt), Cheltenham Festival (with Clare Pollard) and Ledbury Festival, amongst others.