Tom Ling, Author at EES https://europeanevaluation.org European Evaluation Society Tue, 05 Sep 2023 12:10:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.7 Michael Scriven, 1928-2023 https://europeanevaluation.org/2023/09/05/michael-scriven-1928-2023/ Tue, 05 Sep 2023 12:10:42 +0000 https://europeanevaluation.org/?p=15401 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 Oxford. However, it was in […]

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]]> Relevance of Independent Evaluations in IFIs: fact or fiction? https://europeanevaluation.org/2022/12/08/relevance-of-independent-evaluations-in-ifis-fact-or-fiction/ Thu, 08 Dec 2022 15:39:52 +0000 https://europeanevaluation.org/?p=13919 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 authors and should not be understood to reflect the views of the World […]

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]]> Transformation is hard but evaluation can help https://europeanevaluation.org/2021/11/22/transformation-is-hard-but-evaluation-can-help/ Mon, 22 Nov 2021 10:21:37 +0000 https://europeanevaluation.org/?p=11035 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 President-elect and Head of Evaluation at RAND Europe When did you last read an evaluation […]

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]]> Transforming Evaluation – Introducing the EES Webinar Series https://europeanevaluation.org/2020/07/22/transforming-evaluation-introducing-the-ees-webinar-series/ https://europeanevaluation.org/2020/07/22/transforming-evaluation-introducing-the-ees-webinar-series/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2020 07:31:22 +0000 https://europeanevaluation.org/?p=5890   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 the global challenges of environmental degradation, social and economic inequities, and […]

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]]> https://europeanevaluation.org/2020/07/22/transforming-evaluation-introducing-the-ees-webinar-series/feed/ 1 What Elinor Ostrom Teaches Us About Avoiding the ‘Tragedy of the Commons’ in Delivering the Public Interest in the Post COVID-19 World https://europeanevaluation.org/2020/06/18/what-elinor-ostrom-teaches-us-about-avoiding-the-tragedy-of-the-commons-in-delivering-the-public-interest-in-the-post-covid-19-world/ Thu, 18 Jun 2020 15:25:32 +0000 https://europeanevaluation.org/?p=5130 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 of the population is being asked to make considerable […]

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