About Lateral

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Lateral Magazine is a collection of new voices exploring the relationship between science and society. This relationship encompasses every aspect of human life, from the details of our everyday lives to parts of the wider world we never properly consider.

By supporting and providing a platform for some of the best new and up-and-coming science writers and artists, we hope to inspire a new generation that understands how science connects to their lives and to the world as a whole.

Lateral Magazine is published by Lateral Publishing Group Ltd.

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Lateral Magazine is not currently publishing. The last issue was produced in March 2019.

 

The Editorial Team

Our editorial team is composed of young people with backgrounds in both scientific research and communications. If you are interested in becoming an editor at Laterallet us know
 

FOUNDING EDITOR: JACK SCANLAN

Jack is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, studying the evolutionary molecular genetics of insects. An active science communicator for close to a decade, he has written for COSMOS Magazine, SBS, Australasian Science and Nature Education. His appreciation for both wasps and Björk has no limit.

@JackLScanlan

 

DEPUTY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Deborah Kane

Deborah is a postgrad editing and communications graduate from the University of Melbourne. She is also qualified in secondary teaching, with undergrad majors in English literature and religious studies. Her main area of interest is educational publishing, and she has edited for Macmillan Education and Cambridge University Press, interned at Wiley Education and edited PhD theses. She is passionate about using the power of education to make the world a happier place.

deputyeditor@lateralmag.com

 

Business Development Manager: SARA PARADOWSKI

Sara is currently employed at La Trobe University as the Senior Human Ethics Officer and spends a lot of her time helping students and academics with their human research ethics applications. She completed her undergraduate degree in Anatomical Sciences at the University of Manchester in the UK. She is an avid fiction reader and even named her dog David Mitchell, after the author.

operations@lateralmag.com

 

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: TESSA EVANS

Tessa is primarily a chemist who misses tinkering in the lab. While she spent 2016 driving around Australia teaching forensic science to high school students, she now works as a media coordinator at the New Zealand Science Media Centre.

editor@lateralmag.com / @TessaEEvans

 

ART DIRECTOR: DR NICKI CRANNA

Nicki is a recent PhD graduate from the University of Melbourne where she specialised in cancer genetics and cell biology. She quickly developed a passion for the beauty of science and has been using it as a way to communicate science to a broad audience ever since. You will find her organising science-based art exhibitions around Melbourne, or spreading the scientific love at artists' markets with her under-the-microscope jewellery enterprise, Artomic.

artdirector@lateralmag.com / @NickiCranna

 

LIFE SCIENCE EDITOR: ANDREW KATSIS

Andrew is a zoologist and PhD student at Deakin University, specialising in bird behaviour. He has written and edited science articles for The Conversation, and produced the radio program A Science Story for SYN 90.7 FM.

lifesci@lateralmag.com / @andrew_katsis

 

SOCIETY & EDUCATION EDITOR: ENA MUSIC

Ena is a PhD candidate at the Queensland University of Technology and a Canadian enjoying thawing out in beautiful Brisbane. Her current research involves creating tiny 3D cartilage tissues from adult stem cells. She believes everyone’s life is made better with a daily dose of science.

socedu@lateralmag.com / @E__Music

PHilosophy & History EDITOR: Nathan Mifsud

Nathan has a PhD in cognitive neuroscience from UNSW Sydney. Now based in Melbourne, he teaches and does research in higher education and youth mental health.

philhist@lateralmag.com

 

PHYSICAL SCIENCE EDITOR: Lauren Fuge

Lauren is a freelance science writer whose work has appeared in Cosmos Magazine, on Australia's Science Channel, and in The Best Australian Science Writing 2015. With a background in both creative arts and physics, she's particularly interested in how science can be communicated through storytelling.

physsci@lateralmag.com

 
 

PHYSICAL SCIENCE DEPUTY EDITOR: IVY SHIH

Ivy is a freelance science journalist who has written for Nature, The Limbic, Australian Geographic and The Conversation. In a former life, she was a virologist specialising in HIV and microscopy. Her writing is powered by videogame and film soundtracks.

physsci@lateralmag.com / @Ivyhish

 

Social Media Manager and General EDITOR: Ellen Rykers

Ever since she started a dead bird collection at age five, Ellen has had an insatiable curiosity. She has applied this inquisitive nature to science writing, covering topics as diverse as swearing, space robots and sexual transitions in sharks. Ellen is based in Dunedin, New Zealand. Her work has appeared in New Zealand Geographic, Australian Geographic and Global Hobo.

@ellerykr

General EDITOR: Sumudu Narayana

Sumudu has a PhD in biological sciences from the University of Adelaide and currently works in clinical research trying to bring new discoveries from the laboratory to the patients. She is also a writes for the Australian Science Channel and is passionate about sharing her love of science (and cake) with everyone.

 

Collateral Team

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: ELLICE MOL

Ellice has over a decade's experience as a journalist and content producer spanning radio and documentary production, communications and digital project management. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Biological Sciences and Master of Arts in Journalism. She is passionate about mentoring and training young science communicators.

podcast@lateralmag.com / @ELeechiMo

PRODUCER: Sunsanee McDonnell

Sunsanee is a recently released PhD graduate from the University of Melbourne - a recovering Asian studies researcher with latent scientific tendencies. While in the field, she enjoyed interviewing people about politics, China and economic development in Southeast Asia’s borderlands. With a background in astrophysics and biochemistry, and a general love of science, she is working to bring you stories of the weird and wonderful.

podcast@lateralmag.com

PRODUCER: Sarah Matthews

Sarah is a final year Journalism/Arts Student at the University of Queensland. She has a passion for storytelling through radio and podcasting, as well as a special interest in science journalism. She has previously done work for the Ecological Society of Australia and The Conversation.

podcast@lateralmag.com

 

Our Supporters

Lateral was made possible through the support of many individuals and organisations. We'd like to thank these people who donated generously to help get us off the ground.

Adam Larosa
Aldo Compagnoni
Alison Orchard
Alistair McCaskill
Amelia Travers
Amy Rogers
Andrew Brentnall
Andrew Waddington
Andrew Weatherall
Annika Victoria
Arvind Suresh
Ashleigh Melford
Australian Skeptics
Beau Oakley
Becky Dot
Ben McKenzie
Brady Clarke
Bren Carruthers
Caitlin Syme
Cameron Webb
Carey Wolhuter
Carly Monks
Carolyn Ovens
Catherine Leb
Cathy Cavallo
Chad Parkhill
Charlie McIntyre
Chloe Anderson
Claire Baillie
Claire Grech
Damo Camilleri
Daniel Carosone
Daniel Kilby

Dave Scriven
Debbie Fry
Edison Carter
Edward and Hazel Brentnall
Eilidh Southren
Eleanor Robertson
Elia Pirtle
Elizabeth Brentnall
Ella Kelly
Ellie Mei
Emma Colvill
Florienne Loder
Frank Nyhuis
Frosa Katsis
Gayee Maino
Gemma Ferguson
Geoff Kelly
Gerard Hickey
Grace Wemyss
Gold
Gulsara Kaplun
Henry Le
Ian Davidson
Imran Besgrove
Jacey Ashton
Jacquie Milner
Jaiden Mispy
James Garth
James Khoo
James Maino
Jenny Martin
Jo Evans
Johannes Schult

John Sharp
Kate Evans
Kelly Weinersmith
Kimberley Anne-Maree
Kirsti Abbott
Krystal Evans
Kyle Henderson
Kylie Sturgess
Lachlan Clifford
Lauren Taylor
Lee Constable
Liz Barber
Lizzy Bart
Luke Weston
Lynette Torres
Melissa Kaercher
Marita Nyhuis
Matt Pucius
Matthew Mack
Mattias Björnmalm
Melanie Thomson
Michael Green
Michael Vagg
Mick Steinbach
Mike Flattley
Mike McRae
Mike Petrescu
Myriah Hankins
Nabila Tahsin
Nae Hutch
Natalie Bedini
Nathan Dannatt
Nick Caldwell

Olivier Restif
Pat Bonney
Penny Orbell
Rebecca Scanlan
Renée Basham
Rhys Morgan
Rose Michael
Ruth Glass
Sabine Wolff
Sally and Philip Brentnall
Sam Brentnall
Sarah Nagorcka
Scott Sues
Sheena Smith
Sean Elliott
Sean Pollock
Sean Wright
Sophia Frentz
Stan Karaoutsadis
Stephanie Bernard
Stephanie Sasse
Stephanie Valle
Steve Roberts
Steven Morgan
Suzanne Rofe
Tess Kou
Tom Sidwell
Upulie Divisekera
Warren Bonett
William Farr