Hi,
On August 6, 2006, at lunch on the last day of Wikimania, eight doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences, from around the world (Italy, Ireland, Germany, Greece, Taiwan, U.S.--Georgia, Boston, Chicago), discussed various ways to collaborate.
This web page on Wikimedia is one place we may continue discussing collaborations:
Social Research Collaborations http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research/Social_Research_Collaborations
If you know any graduate students who are actively engaged in social research of aspects of the free culture movement or of wikimedia projects, please let them know about this webpage.
Thanks, Doug