Michael Pagis wrote a dissertation in Sociology following ethnographic work with the Vipassana community in the US and Israel, and she has published several articles that might be of interest:

Pagis, Michal. (2015). “Evoking Equanimity: Silent Interaction Rituals in Vipassana Meditation Retreats.” Qualitative Sociology.

Pagis, Michal. (2010) “From Abstract Concepts to Experiential Knowledge: Embodying Enlightenment in a Meditation Center.” Qualitative Sociology 33 469-489

Pagis, Michal. (2010) “Producing Intersubjectivity in Silence: An Ethnography of Meditation Practices.” Ethnography 11: 309-328

Pagis, Michal. (2009) “Embodied Self-Reflexivity.” Social Psychology Quarterly 72: 265-283.

My Phd research in Sociology was a comparative study focused on Thich Nhat Hanh’s mindfulness and S. N. GOenka’s Vipassana. I’ve recently published an article focusing on the ecological dimension of meditative practices (including Vipassana):

Carvalho, António (2017), "Ecologies of the Self in Practice - meditation, affect and ecosophy", Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 99, 2, 207-222

I hope this helps!

Best wishes,

António

This is great! Thanks

The research being done on Vipassana meditation by Vipassana Research Institute situated in Mumbai, India in tradition of great Viapassana teacher late Rev. S. N. Goenka ji. It is original practical technique explored by Lord Gautama the Buddha, forgotten by the world but saved by the teacher-pupil tradition in Maynamar / Burma, and again bring back to India Mr. S.N. Goenka ji . 

One can obtain more information from website- www.vri.org

I am also interested in research but Vipassana is technique for purification of mind should be practiced by each one to get free from all mental defilement from root level for ever and experience a state of liberation / enlightenment.