Professor (Emeritus) Tom Ling, PhD
Position
E-mail
Head of Evaluation and Senior Research Leader
tling@rand.org
Education
PhD British Government
University of Essex, 1991
MA Political theory
University of Essex, 1981
MA (Hons) Social and Political Sciences
University of Cambridge, 1978
Professional Experience
2014 2012 - 2014
2006 – 2012
Head of Evaluation, RAND Europe
Head of Impact, Innovation and Evidence, Save the Children UK
Director, Evaluation, RAND Europe
2004 – 2006
2002 - 2007
2002 - 2006
2000 - 2002
1992 - 2000
Research Leader, RAND Europe Cambridge
Professor of Public Policy Anglia Ruskin University
Senior Research Fellow, UK National Audit Office (half-time)
Reader in Public Policy, Anglia Polytechnic University
Senior Lecturer in Politics, Anglia Polytechnic University (halftime from 1996)
Lecturer in British Politics, Open University
Tutor in Politics and Welfare, Open University
Part-time lecturer University of Cambridge and (part-time PhD
student)
1990 - 1992
1986 - 1992
1980 - 1986
Principal Investigator, Behaviour and Health Research Unit, University of Cambridge
Professor (Emeritus) Anglia Ruskin University
Member of College of Assessors, the Health Foundation
Specific Expertise and Skills
Tom Ling is senior research leader, and head of evaluation at RAND Europe leading
evaluations and applied research focused on the key challenges facing organizations
delivering public benefits, and in particular health services, in the UK, Europe and
Developing Countries. His current health portfolio in health includes evaluations of the
innovation landscape, quality improvement, and service transformation for clients
such as the UK Department of Health and the Health Foundation. This work aims to
deliver embedded evaluations, delivering relevant and timely information,
communicated effectively to decision-makers, and applying the highest research
standards. Before re-joining RAND Tom was Head of Impact Innovation and Evidence
at Save the Children where his responsibilities included ensuring that evaluations
contribute to policy and change in the challenging environment of International
Development. He has over twenty years of experience in researching on and leading
research projects and has worked on and led evaluation projects with the European
Commission, UK Government departments, the National Audit Office, the Health
Foundation in the UK and many others. He has published widely on evaluation,
accountability and related topics.
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Selected publications and presentations
Ling, T (2015) ‘Managing to Reduce Inequality: Does the Changing Aidscape and the
Need to Reduce Inequality Require a New Approach to Managing Aid?’ in Rist, R,
Martin FC and Fernandez AN Poverty, Inequality and Evaluation World Bank Group,
New York
Leone L, Ling T, Baldassarre L,. Barnett LM, Capranica L, and Pesce C (2015)
‘Corporate responsibility for childhood physical activity promotion in the UK’ Health
Promotion International, 2015, 1–14
Ling, T (2014) ‘Achieving equality at scale through system transformation; evaluating
system change’ in Speaking Justice to Power Ethical and Methodological Challenges
for Evaluators Comparative Policy Evaluation, Volume 21 Kim Forss and Mita Marra,
editors Transaction Press.
Stephanie Diepeveen, Tom Ling, Marc Suhrcke, Martin Roland, Theresa M Marteau
(2013) ‘Public acceptability of government intervention to change health-related
behaviours: a systematic review and narrative synthesis’ BMC Public Health 2013, 13:756
Ling, T. and Eager, R. (2013) Delivering Value for Money evaluations’ UK Evaluation
Society Annual Conference, University of London
Ling, T. (2013) ‘Evaluating new tools for doing good’ UK Evaluation Society Annual
Conference 2013.
Ling, T. (2013) Innovative Approaches and Inequality in Development Bi-Annual
Conference, IDEAS
Ling, T. (2013) ‘Measuring the hard to reach in child protection’ DFID learning event
on hard to measure impacts.
Ling, T. et al (2012) ‘Barriers and facilitators to integrating care: experiences from the
English integrated care pilots’ International Journal of Integrated Care Vol 12 (2012)
Ling T. (2012) ‘Evaluating complex and unfolding interventions in real time’,
Evaluation Volume 18 Issue 1 January 2012 pp. 75 - 87.
El Turabi A, Hallsworth M, Ling T, and Grant J (2011) ‘A novel performance
monitoring framework for health research systems: experiences of the National
Institute for Health Research in England’ Health Research Policy and Systems 2011,
9:13
Lonsdale, J Wilkins P and Ling T (2011) Performance Audit: Contributing to
Accountability in Democratic Government London: Edward Elgar
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Ling T, Bardsley M, Adams J, Lewis R, and Roland M (2010)’Evaluation of UK
Integrated Care Pilots: research protocol’ International Journal of Integrated Care
Volume 10, 27 September 2010
Ling, T, Soper, B et al (2010) How do you get clinicians involved in quality
improvement? An evaluation of the Health Foundation's Engaging with Quality
Initiative The Health Foundation October, 2009
Rieper, O, Ling, T, Leuew F (2009) The Evidence Book Washington: Transaction
Publishing
Ling, T (2009) ‘What counts as “sufficient evidence” and a “compelling argument” in
evaluation?’ in Rieper, O, Ling, T, Leuew F (2009) The Evidence Book Washington:
Transaction Publishing
Ling, T and Villalba, L (eds) (2009) The Performance Audit Handbook RAND Europe
Ling, T. (2003) ‘Joined up Government in the UK’ Administracja Publiczna Poland,
Bialystok Nr 2 2003
Ling T. (2003) ‘Ex ante evaluation and the changing public audit function; the case of
scenario planning’ Evaluation 9(4) 437-452
Ling, T. (1998) The British State Since 1945, Polity Press
Ling, T. (1994) 'Whose benefit? "Next Steps", the new managerialism and social
security' in Clarke, J., Cochrane, A. and McLaughlin, E. (eds.) Managing Social
Policy, Sage
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