Ayça Alayli is currently a PhD candidate at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on immigration context, home learning environment and parental investment and the role of acculturation attitudes. Her current work focuses on Turkish immigrants' acculturation attitudes with a person centered mixture modelling approach (Latent profile analysis). Recently, she was involved in a UNICEF project; 'Pathways to Strengthen the Pre-primary Workforce in Low- and Middle-income Countries', White paper, with Dr. Jan Peeters (VBJK-Belgium), as a junior consultant.