I have been going through PhDs completed in recent years on Tudor history – partly in an attempt to ensure that my proposed topic has not already been looked at! – and I came across one discussing Anne Boleyn. It is,

Candice Murray, 'Dynasty: The Legacy of Tudor Scandal in Elizabethan Court Culture', PhD thesis., (State University of New York at Albany, 2008). An abstract is available on ProQuest.

The thesis explores not only Anne's time as queen but mainly her posthumous reputation and it's impact on her daughter and her reign. According to the synopsis:

'The study will focus on the Tudor crown as both source and subject of sexual scandal. Beginning with Henry VII, the dynasty was inherently compromised by its illegitimate Beaufort lineage. In 1527, his son's annulment politicized royal sexuality when the Great Divorce became public gossip. Amidst emergent Protestant Reformation tensions, the court of public opinion found Henry, and particularly, Anne Boleyn, guilty of immoral concupiscence, and judged their sexual scandal responsible for England's uncertain future. When Henry and Anne's daughter ascended the throne in 1558, their scandal, and its specter of illegitimacy, cast a shadow over every facet of Elizabeth Tudor's reign, while her personal character became a contentious subject for public debate between Protestant and Catholic.'

The final chapters:

daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Elizabeth's ambiguous lineage posed a

delicate and politically dangerous issue for the safety of the state when she became queen

in 1558. As if her gender and single state was not unsettling enough, her patent bastardy

created a blatant political challenge to the Catholic powers of Europe while also

undermining her dynastic claim within England. Elizabeth's right to the crown derived

from her father's last magnanimous will, which restored her to the Tudor succession, but

failed to overturn his previous legislation denouncing the Boleyn marriage. What slight

pretense to dynastic legitimacy Elizabeth held rested in Archbishop Thomas Cranmer's

pronouncement on the marriage of Anne Boleyn to Henry Tudor as legal and true

according to the Church of England, a verdict Cranmer later revoked in May of 1536

when the king distanced himself from the scandal of his second marriage. Anne's

marriage bequeathed to her daughter Elizabeth's legitimate Protestant crown, but Anne's

disgrace and execution also revoked that claim. While Elizabeth recognized the political

need for discretion regarding the volatile subject of her mother, particularly when the

debate threatened to impugn her own right to the throne, a variety of sources show that

Elizabeth favored her maternal legacy, often at the expense of her father's line. Elizabeth

sponsored her mother's kin, and her mother's supporters. The literature she sanctioned

painted a sympathetic portrait of Queen Anne as Protestant heroine and martyr. Elizabeth

frequently utilized Boleyn imagery in her art and in her personal effects, which her court,

following her lead, incorporated into their own devices.'

Interestingly, the subject of Elizabeth's relationship with her maternal relations during her reign is explored in another recent thesis:

Kristin Bundesen, 'No other faction but my own: dynastic politics and Elizabeth I's Carey cousins', PhD thesis., (University of Nottingham, 2008).

Bundesen argued that 'as the queen's own, safely non-royal family Elizabeth could deploy the Careys in a wide variety of roles and be assured that their successes would not seriously challenge her authority. She provided them with sufficient support that other court families could not escape the fact that the Careys were the most favoured 'tribe of Dan', yet she never provided them with sufficient  wealth and power that they could destabilise her authority.' (p. 201).

Bundesen thinks it likely that both Katherine and Henry Carey were fathered by Henry VIII. She mentions this in several places including in this discussion on the wardship of Henry Carey:

So some interesting new research. May it continue!