Since her postdoc at UNC Chapel Hill, Fleischman has been a lecturer in the department of psychology at the University of Portsmouth from 2011 to 2020; she is currently on sabbatical. One of her more covered findings in the press is that disgust inhibits sexual arousal in women. In addition to academic publications and lectures, she also gives public lectures and writes articles for the layperson. She argues that eating beef is more ethical than eating chicken because it kills fewer animals per gram of meat.
