Faculty Forum: Todd Schenk

Faculty Forum with Todd Schenk In this Faculty Forum event, Todd Schenk discusses his current work, which falls into three overlapping areas: 1) Collaborative governance, particularly in situations with high degrees of uncertainty, complexity, and institutional ambiguity; 2) Climate change adaptation, particularly as a governance challenge; and 3) Serious games as a tool for action research. Dr. Todd Schenk is an Associate Professor in the Urban Affairs and Planning Program of the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech. He has extensive research and consulting experience working on environmental policy and planning, and collaborative governance issues in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Dr. Schenk received both a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Planning and a Master in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor’s degree in Geography from the University of Guelph. He served as the Assistant Director of the MIT Science Impact Collaborative and held a research fellowship with the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. Dr. Schenk has also held positions with the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe and the Consensus Building Institute. Interviewers: Emma Martin, Master's student in Urban and Regional Planning at Virginia Tech; Catherine Cotrupi, a PhD Student in Higher Education at Virginia Tech