Her main research interests are environmental psychology, consumption and leisure spaces, urban transformations.

Current Research:

• place-identity in gated communities
• discrimination of user groups in consumption and leisure spaces
• developing methods for time-use survey in Turkey

• "The Rise of the Shopping Mall in Turkey: the Use and Appeal of a Mall in Ankara", Cities, 22/2, 2005, pp. 89-108. Erkip, F.
• "The Shopping Mall as an Emergent Public Space in Turkey", Environment and Planning A, 35, June 2003, pp. 1073-1093, Erkip, F.
• "Satisfaction in a Dormitory Building: the Effects of Floor Height on the Perception of Room Size and Crowding", Environment and Behavior, 33.1, January 2001, pp. 35-53, Kaya, N. and Erkip, F. Reprinted in Readings in Social Psychology: General, Classic and Contemporary Selections (Ed. by W. A. Lesko) pp. 382-392, Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2002.
• “Spatial Factors Affecting Wayfinding and Orientation: a Case Study in a Shopping Mall", Environment and Behavior, 32, November 2000, pp. 731-755, Dogu, U. and Erkip, F.