Research
Publications
Schäfer, S. (2023). The individual lay listener as a variable in speaker individualisation tasks (Publication No. 34958) [Doctoral Dissertation, University of York]. White Rose eTheses.
https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/34958/
Schäfer, S., & Foulkes, P. (2023). Towards a screening test for earwitnesses: Investigating the individual voice recognition skills of lay listeners. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 30(2), 234–267.
https://doi.org/10.1558/ijsll.25638
Rendina, S. & Schäfer, S. (2020). The artist and the historian: Thomas Mann’s letters to Otto Seeck. History of Classical Scholarship, 2, 193–221.
https://www.hcsjournal.org/ojs/index.php/hcs/article/view/50
Conference Posters and Presentations
Gerlach, L., Carroll, L., Fairclough, L., Gibb-Reid, B., Harrington, L., Lee, D., Lieb, A., Möller, S., Patman, C., Paver, A., Schäfer, S., Siewert, M., Suthar, N., Valenzuela Farías, M., Williams, S., Brown, G. & Kirchhübel, C. (2023). Learning by doing: An example of casework-relevant training in forensic speech science. IAFPA, University of Zürich, Switzerland, 9–12 July.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383261239_Learning_by_doing_An_example_of_casework-relevant_training_in_forensic_speech_science
Schäfer, S. & Foulkes, P. (2022). Individual voice recognition skills in lay speaker identification tasks. ISAPh 2022 (4th International Symposium on Applied Phonetics), Lund, Sweden, 14–16 September.
Schäfer, S. & Foulkes, P. (2022). The impact of voice recognition skills on earwitness testimony. 1st Interdisciplinary Conference on Voice Identity (VoiceID): Perception, Production, and Computational Approaches. University of Zürich, Switzerland, 4–6 July.
https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.14835.40489
Schäfer, S. & Foulkes, P. (2022). Voice memory as an estimator variable in lay speaker identification tasks. IAFPA, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 10–13 July.
https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.28257.17761
Schäfer, S. & Foulkes, P. (2022). Assessing the individual voice recognition skills of earwitnesses. BAAP, University of York, 4–8 April.
Schäfer, S. (2018). The interaction of Nuclear Pitch Accents and Givenness in English. StuTS, University of Göttingen, 16–20 November.
Schäfer, S. (2017). The intonation of different information states in English. Prosody and Meaning, Universität Konstanz, 4–6 October.
https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.33237.04329
Invited Talks
Novel findings on voice processing and super-recognition. Presented at Saarland University – Germany [Germanistisches Forschungskolloquium]. 20 November 2024.
The individual listener as a variable in speaker discrimination tasks. Presented at Alexandria University – Egypt. 15 November 2024.
The individual lay listener as a variable in speaker individualization tasks. Presented at Saarland University – Germany [Phonetisches Forschungskolloquium]. 6 November 2024.
On the interaction of nuclear pitch accents and information states in English. Presented at Saarland University – Germany [Phonetisches Forschungskolloquium]. 4 July 2018.