On 30 May 2005, the Central Commission for Scholarly Degrees and Scientific Titles granted the SWPS Faculty of Psychology the power to confer D.Sc. (habilitation) degrees in the humanities, in the field of Psychology. The first SWPS habilitation colloquium took place on 16 December 2005. On 24 April 2006, the Central Commission for Scholarly Degrees and Scientific Titles approved the conferral of SWPS's very first D.Sc. degree Dr. Tomasz Zaleśkiewicz.