Studies of NZ social scientists are a scattered literature but some have been provided on the BRCSS website: see from its working paper series-

• BRCSS National Survey of Social Scientists 2006 report
• BRCSS Portfolio Research Programmes Survey 2007  
• The BRCSS 2005-2006 Progress Report
• Virtual Conferening Technologies:  A Survey of Users 
• BRCSS:  Building a Network and a Knowledge Space in Critical Conditions
• Trends in Human Capital in the Social Sciences in New Zealand
• Mapping the Social Sciences:  Characteristics of Academic Research Outputs
• National Survey of Social Scientists
• Creating E-research Communities:  The Aotearoa/New Zealand National Project

Other descriptive material is posted in reports on the MoRST website (eg bibliographical investigations: http://www.morst.govt.nz/publications/a-z/), TEC (studies around the PBRF program: http://www.tec.govt.nz/templates/StandardSummary.aspx?id=1206) and the Tertiary research section of the Ministry of Education