Tom Ling, Author at EES

Michael Scriven, 1928-2023

by Tom Ling | Sep 5, 2023 | Blog

The Board of the EES were saddened to hear of the passing of one of the truly great figures in the history of evaluation. Michael Scriven died on the 28 August in California. He was born in Britain and grew up and studied in Australia before completing his PhD at...

Relevance of Independent Evaluations in IFIs: fact or fiction?

by Tom Ling | Dec 8, 2022 | Blog

Raghavan Narayanan, Senior Evaluation Officer, Finance and Private Sector Development Unit, World Bank and Tom Ling Head of Evaluation at RAND Europe and President of the European Evaluation Society. The views expressed in this blog are the personal views of the...

Transformation is hard but evaluation can help

by Tom Ling | Nov 22, 2021 | Blog

Transformation is hard but evaluation can help; how evaluators can contribute to the development of a multi-agency advisory service (MAAS) to support innovators with the development of AI and data-driven solutions for health and social care By Tom Ling, EES...

Transforming Evaluation – Introducing the EES Webinar Series

by Tom Ling | Jul 22, 2020 | Blog

Authors: Tom Ling, May Pettigrew and Lauren Weiss In such turbulent times of baffling crises, contradiction and uncertainty, we – as an evaluation community – should come together, debate and agree on new ways of doing our professional work to better respond to...

What Elinor Ostrom Teaches Us About Avoiding the ‘Tragedy of the Commons’ in Delivering the Public Interest in the Post COVID-19 World

by Tom Ling | Jun 18, 2020 | Blog

The public interest can be an elusive concept, especially when we are trying to distinguish between shared and individual interests. This problem has been brought into sharper focus as we attempt to find the right path to a post COVID-19 world. On the one hand, most...