Michael Young is a social anthropologist at the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. His research interests lie in Melanesian anthropology and the history of social anthropology. Young has also worked as a consultant anthropologist, conducting studies in eastern Papua New Guinea, including a Social Impact Study for Oil Palm plantations in Milne Bay (1981); a Socio-Economic Impact Study for the Wapolu Gold Mine, Fergusson Island (1987); a Sociological Survey of Woodlark Island relating to forestry (1990); a Social Mapping Study of South Normanby Island for a possible gold mine (1992).

His collection on Open Research currently consists of slides from his consultant anthropological research in New Guinea. Further records from Young's collections can be found at ANUA 553 and ANUA 685 at the ANU Archives.