Goran Basic is associate professor of sociology and senior lecturer at the Department of Education, Linnaeus University. His research concerns social and pedagogical processes and collaborations among different actors in school, university, youth care, social care, police, and coast guard. He has also written articles on post-war society and carried out an evaluation of several projects in juvenile care, analysed policing practices in the Baltic Sea area, and the experiences of young people who have lived through a war and been placed in HVB homes (residential care homes for children and young people) in Sweden, as well as experiences of institutional staff who work with these young people on a daily basis. In the school context, analyses have focused on vulnerable categories of students, such as newly arrived students and students who use alcohol and drugs. Special analytical focus in Basic's research is on the functions of the context and its impact on the non-professional actor in the relationship (child, youth, pupil, student, service user, parent, traveller, suspect, civilian, refugee, prisoner).