PReSS accounts and stipends

All University of Auckland doctoral students receive an annual stipend to help cover direct research costs, which is paid into a PReSS account. Funding is credited on an annual basis for up to four years full-time (or pro-rata for part-time).

For additional information on PReSS accounts, you can read the PReSS account policy and procedures.

Migration to Wahapū or new PhD statute

If you have been migrated to Wahapū or you started under the new PhD statute, you can check your allocations and balance in the dedicated section in your Wahapū home > Thesis Page > PReSS.

We suggest that you submit all of your PReSS expenditure approval requests individually through Wahapū so you can keep your approvals in one place.

When you are ready to process the reimbursement via Concur you can take screenshots of the approval page in Wahapū (the one with the details of the various approval stages and where the approval comment from the SGS adviser is visible).

You can make an online claim for reimbursement from your PReSS account using Concur. The student must first complete the following steps to access the University’s expense reimbursement system - Concur.

Postgraduate/PhD students need to:

1.  Log into Student Services Online
2.  Go to the Personal Bank Account section
3.  Enter the NZ bank account into which the payment will be deposited

Access is automatically granted to Concur within two business days, subject to bank account details entered by 6pm.

For doctoral students enrolled before 2026, please use the PReSS codes according to your research subjects and previous faculty:

• Arts: 9442
• Education and Social Work: 9444
• Dance, Fine Arts and Music: 9441

For projects, if charging to PReSS account, enter your UPI (in your university email, the text that precedes the @aucklanduni.ac.nz)

If you have any questions about PReSS accounts, you can contact 
AEDDOCTORAL@auckland.ac.nz