Maartje Schreuder, PhD (M.J.)

Expertises

Expertise

My main interests and experience lie in language and speech, especially related to the forensic application, as well as in forensic experts and bias. 

My teaching focuses on forensic expert witnesses, and expert witness skills like report writing and court appearance.

Experience

2008 - current

Lecturer and Researcher• Maastricht University, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience

Course coordination, tutorships, practicals, lectures, thesis supervision, examination, mostly in the field of forensic and legal psychology. Supervision of a PhD student. 

 

2008 - current

Forensic Linguist • The Maastricht Forensic Institute

Forensic analyses and reports. Communication and advising of police and legal professionals. Education of assistants.

 

Education

2018                 University Teaching Qualification • Maastricht University 

2017                 Digital Photography • Centrum voor Afstandsonderwijs, Ondernemersschool, Breda, Netherlands/Belgium

2008 - 2013        Training & examination court expert in forensic language, speech and audio analysis, The Maastricht Forensic Institute (‘training on the job’, under the supervision of prof. dr. A.P.A. Broeders)

2000 - 2006      PhD General Linguistics • Rijksuniversiteit Groningen  

1994 - 1999   Master Dutch Language and Literature / General Linguistics • Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Career history

2008 - present: 

Researcher and lecturer at Maastricht University, Faculty of Psychology and Neurosciences.

Forensic case work: Speech, Language, and Audio examinations at The Maastricht Forensic Institute (TMFI), Maastricht University.

Forensic Case work record:

Over 100 forensic examinations of cases in the areas of speaker comparison, intelligibility enhancement and transcription of speech recordings, linguistic text analyses, integrity and authenticity analyses of audio recordings, and auditory confrontation undertaken for police, prosecution, defence lawyers, and private parties in the Netherlands and Belgium. 

2000 - 2008

PhD student and Lecturer • Rijksuniversiteit Groningen & Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

PhD in General Linguistics. Lecturer in diverse courses on language.

2006 - 2008:  

Freelance Projectmanagement, Stichting Studio Taalwetenschap, Amsterdam; various educational linguistic projects, on issues like multilingualism, dialects, speech and language technology.

2005 - 2008:  

Freelance Phonetic transcriber: provide word lists with phonetic transcriptions of pronunciation, for several (speech) technology companies, such as Harman/Becker, Ulm (Germany); VoiceBox (US).

1999 - 2000:  

Editorial work (freelance) for educational publishing company Wolters-Noordhoff, Groningen. Editing a course book for Dutch language, and writing the instructor's manual and exercises.

Professional and Scientific Societies:

  • Member of IAFPA (International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics)
  • Member of IAFLL (International Association of Forensic Linguists)
  • Member of NVFW (Netherlands Association for Phonetic Sciences)
  • Member of AVT (General Association for Linguistics in the Netherlands)