Dr Amy Young is an experienced mid-career with technical skills in program evaluation and review, literature review and a range of qualitative and quantitative research and evaluation methodologies. She has a passion for violence-prevention, promoting children's rights, and addressing domestic and family violence. She has strong stakeholder management and program execution skills and has worked as a researcher on diverse projects researching adolescents using violence, sexual violence in a military context, violence against children in Afghanistan and child protection in Indonesia. Dr Young was lead researcher on the Koneksi funded project 'Forced labour and climate change: keeping a focus on women and children' where she led a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional team examining the social impacts of climate change on women and children in coastal Java. This project built upon Dr Young's PhD work on Child Wellbeing in Brunei Darussalam. She is currently drawing on these experiences as a Research Fellow with Childlight East Asia and Pacific Hub based in the School of Social Science. 

Dr Young has convened research methods courses at Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels, and has attracted over $1,500,000 in research funding across her career.