diff --git a/src/app/root/root.component.ts b/src/app/root/root.component.ts
index 3c2d65fc1f5..d7b33560d1b 100644
--- a/src/app/root/root.component.ts
+++ b/src/app/root/root.component.ts
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import { AuthService } from '../core/auth/auth.service';
 import { CSSVariableService } from '../shared/sass-helper/css-variable.service';
 import { MenuService } from '../shared/menu/menu.service';
 import { HostWindowService } from '../shared/host-window.service';
-import { ThemeConfig } from '../../config/theme.model';
+import { ThemeConfig } from '../../config/theme.config';
 import { Angulartics2DSpace } from '../statistics/angulartics/dspace-provider';
 import { environment } from '../../environments/environment';
 import { slideSidebarPadding } from '../shared/animations/slide';
diff --git a/src/app/shared/mocks/theme-service.mock.ts b/src/app/shared/mocks/theme-service.mock.ts
index e3c2960e51f..3997d175047 100644
--- a/src/app/shared/mocks/theme-service.mock.ts
+++ b/src/app/shared/mocks/theme-service.mock.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { ThemeService } from '../theme-support/theme.service';
 import { of as observableOf } from 'rxjs';
-import { ThemeConfig } from '../../../config/theme.model';
+import { ThemeConfig } from '../../../config/theme.config';
 import { isNotEmpty } from '../empty.util';
 
 export function getMockThemeService(themeName = 'base', themes?: ThemeConfig[]): ThemeService {
diff --git a/src/app/shared/object-collection/shared/listable-object/listable-object.decorator.ts b/src/app/shared/object-collection/shared/listable-object/listable-object.decorator.ts
index e5654e63e00..470bcfcdafd 100644
--- a/src/app/shared/object-collection/shared/listable-object/listable-object.decorator.ts
+++ b/src/app/shared/object-collection/shared/listable-object/listable-object.decorator.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { hasNoValue, hasValue, isNotEmpty } from '../../../empty.util';
 import { GenericConstructor } from '../../../../core/shared/generic-constructor';
 import { ListableObject } from '../listable-object.model';
 import { environment } from '../../../../../environments/environment';
-import { ThemeConfig } from '../../../../../config/theme.model';
+import { ThemeConfig } from '../../../../../config/theme.config';
 import { InjectionToken } from '@angular/core';
 
 export const DEFAULT_VIEW_MODE = ViewMode.ListElement;
diff --git a/src/config/theme.model.ts b/src/app/shared/theme-support/theme.model.ts
similarity index 60%
rename from src/config/theme.model.ts
rename to src/app/shared/theme-support/theme.model.ts
index 571d47a1d1d..ce470dedc07 100644
--- a/src/config/theme.model.ts
+++ b/src/app/shared/theme-support/theme.model.ts
@@ -1,57 +1,13 @@
 /* eslint-disable max-classes-per-file */
-import { Config } from './config.interface';
-import { hasValue, hasNoValue, isNotEmpty } from '../app/shared/empty.util';
-import { DSpaceObject } from '../app/core/shared/dspace-object.model';
-import { getDSORoute } from '../app/app-routing-paths';
-import { HandleObject } from '../app/core/shared/handle-object.model';
+import { hasValue, hasNoValue, isNotEmpty } from '../empty.util';
+import { DSpaceObject } from '../../core/shared/dspace-object.model';
+import { getDSORoute } from '../../app-routing-paths';
+import { HandleObject } from '../../core/shared/handle-object.model';
 import { Injector } from '@angular/core';
-import { HandleService } from '../app/shared/handle.service';
+import { HandleService } from '../handle.service';
 import { combineLatest, Observable, of as observableOf } from 'rxjs';
 import { map, take } from 'rxjs/operators';
-
-export interface NamedThemeConfig extends Config {
-  name: string;
-
-  /**
-   * Specify another theme to build upon: whenever a themed component is not found in the current theme,
-   * its ancestor theme(s) will be checked recursively before falling back to the default theme.
-   */
-  extends?: string;
-
-  /**
-   * A list of HTML tags that should be added to the HEAD section of the document, whenever this theme is active.
-   */
-  headTags?: HeadTagConfig[];
-}
-
-/**
- * Interface that represents a single theme-specific HTML tag in the HEAD section of the page.
- */
-export interface HeadTagConfig extends Config {
-  /**
-   * The name of the HTML tag
-   */
-  tagName: string;
-
-  /**
-   * The attributes on the HTML tag
-   */
-  attributes?: {
-    [key: string]: string;
-  };
-}
-
-export interface RegExThemeConfig extends NamedThemeConfig {
-  regex: string;
-}
-
-export interface HandleThemeConfig extends NamedThemeConfig {
-  handle: string;
-}
-
-export interface UUIDThemeConfig extends NamedThemeConfig {
-  uuid: string;
-}
+import { HandleThemeConfig, NamedThemeConfig, RegExThemeConfig, UUIDThemeConfig, ThemeConfig } from '../../../config/theme.config';
 
 export class Theme {
   constructor(public config: NamedThemeConfig) {
@@ -71,7 +27,7 @@ export class RegExTheme extends Theme {
   }
 
   matches(url: string, dso: DSpaceObject): Observable<boolean> {
-    let match;
+    let match: RegExpMatchArray;
     const route = getDSORoute(dso);
 
     if (isNotEmpty(route)) {
@@ -92,7 +48,7 @@ export class HandleTheme extends Theme {
 
   constructor(public config: HandleThemeConfig,
               protected handleService: HandleService
-              ) {
+  ) {
     super(config);
     this.normalizedHandle$ = this.handleService.normalizeHandle(this.config.handle).pipe(
       take(1),
@@ -133,9 +89,3 @@ export const themeFactory = (config: ThemeConfig, injector: Injector): Theme =>
     return new Theme(config as NamedThemeConfig);
   }
 };
-
-export type ThemeConfig
-  = NamedThemeConfig
-  | RegExThemeConfig
-  | HandleThemeConfig
-  | UUIDThemeConfig;
diff --git a/src/app/shared/theme-support/theme.service.spec.ts b/src/app/shared/theme-support/theme.service.spec.ts
index c4669408e1c..34dffe2ef21 100644
--- a/src/app/shared/theme-support/theme.service.spec.ts
+++ b/src/app/shared/theme-support/theme.service.spec.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { provideMockActions } from '@ngrx/effects/testing';
 import { LinkService } from '../../core/cache/builders/link.service';
 import { hot } from 'jasmine-marbles';
 import { SetThemeAction } from './theme.actions';
-import { Theme } from '../../../config/theme.model';
+import { Theme } from './theme.model';
 import { provideMockStore } from '@ngrx/store/testing';
 import { Community } from '../../core/shared/community.model';
 import { COMMUNITY } from '../../core/shared/community.resource-type';
diff --git a/src/app/shared/theme-support/theme.service.ts b/src/app/shared/theme-support/theme.service.ts
index e2b0ea7589f..3e36f320585 100644
--- a/src/app/shared/theme-support/theme.service.ts
+++ b/src/app/shared/theme-support/theme.service.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ import { hasNoValue, hasValue, isNotEmpty } from '../empty.util';
 import { RemoteData } from '../../core/data/remote-data';
 import { DSpaceObject } from '../../core/shared/dspace-object.model';
 import { getFirstCompletedRemoteData, getFirstSucceededRemoteData, getRemoteDataPayload } from '../../core/shared/operators';
-import { HeadTagConfig, Theme, ThemeConfig, themeFactory } from '../../../config/theme.model';
+import { Theme, themeFactory } from './theme.model';
+import { ThemeConfig, HeadTagConfig } from '../../../config/theme.config';
 import { NO_OP_ACTION_TYPE, NoOpAction } from '../ngrx/no-op.action';
 import { followLink } from '../utils/follow-link-config.model';
 import { LinkService } from '../../core/cache/builders/link.service';
diff --git a/src/app/shared/theme-support/themed.component.spec.ts b/src/app/shared/theme-support/themed.component.spec.ts
index 7776e603798..3ddc13ab6c6 100644
--- a/src/app/shared/theme-support/themed.component.spec.ts
+++ b/src/app/shared/theme-support/themed.component.spec.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import { VarDirective } from '../utils/var.directive';
 import { ThemeService } from './theme.service';
 import { getMockThemeService } from '../mocks/theme-service.mock';
 import { TestComponent } from './test/test.component.spec';
-import { ThemeConfig } from '../../../config/theme.model';
+import { ThemeConfig } from '../../../config/theme.config';
 
 @Component({
   selector: 'ds-test-themed-component',
diff --git a/src/config/app-config.interface.ts b/src/config/app-config.interface.ts
index 84a30549a72..69aeab7cbf8 100644
--- a/src/config/app-config.interface.ts
+++ b/src/config/app-config.interface.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import { FormConfig } from './form-config.interfaces';
 import { LangConfig } from './lang-config.interface';
 import { ItemConfig } from './item-config.interface';
 import { CollectionPageConfig } from './collection-page-config.interface';
-import { ThemeConfig } from './theme.model';
+import { ThemeConfig } from './theme.config';
 import { AuthConfig } from './auth-config.interfaces';
 import { UIServerConfig } from './ui-server-config.interface';
 import { MediaViewerConfig } from './media-viewer-config.interface';
diff --git a/src/config/config.util.spec.ts b/src/config/config.util.spec.ts
index 2d1d8e1be79..4dc2b67260e 100644
--- a/src/config/config.util.spec.ts
+++ b/src/config/config.util.spec.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { environment } from '../environments/environment.production';
 import { extendEnvironmentWithAppConfig } from './config.util';
 import { DefaultAppConfig } from './default-app-config';
-import { HandleThemeConfig } from './theme.model';
+import { HandleThemeConfig } from './theme.config';
 
 describe('Config Util', () => {
   describe('extendEnvironmentWithAppConfig', () => {
diff --git a/src/config/config.util.ts b/src/config/config.util.ts
index 9912a817d6f..c1d87e34909 100644
--- a/src/config/config.util.ts
+++ b/src/config/config.util.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import { environment } from '../environments/environment';
 import { hasNoValue } from '../app/shared/empty.util';
 
 import { AppConfig } from './app-config.interface';
-import { ThemeConfig, NamedThemeConfig } from './theme.model';
+import { ThemeConfig, NamedThemeConfig } from './theme.config';
 import { BASE_THEME_NAME } from '../app/shared/theme-support/theme.constants';
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/config/default-app-config.ts b/src/config/default-app-config.ts
index a6e9e092e46..32bb6e0370b 100644
--- a/src/config/default-app-config.ts
+++ b/src/config/default-app-config.ts
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import { MediaViewerConfig } from './media-viewer-config.interface';
 import { INotificationBoardOptions } from './notifications-config.interfaces';
 import { ServerConfig } from './server-config.interface';
 import { SubmissionConfig } from './submission-config.interface';
-import { ThemeConfig } from './theme.model';
+import { ThemeConfig } from './theme.config';
 import { UIServerConfig } from './ui-server-config.interface';
 import { BundleConfig } from './bundle-config.interface';
 import { ActuatorsConfig } from './actuators.config';
diff --git a/src/config/theme.config.ts b/src/config/theme.config.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7989dc3af9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/config/theme.config.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+import { Config } from './config.interface';
+
+export interface NamedThemeConfig extends Config {
+  name: string;
+
+  /**
+   * Specify another theme to build upon: whenever a themed component is not found in the current theme,
+   * its ancestor theme(s) will be checked recursively before falling back to the default theme.
+   */
+  extends?: string;
+
+  /**
+   * A list of HTML tags that should be added to the HEAD section of the document, whenever this theme is active.
+   */
+  headTags?: HeadTagConfig[];
+}
+
+/**
+ * Interface that represents a single theme-specific HTML tag in the HEAD section of the page.
+ */
+export interface HeadTagConfig extends Config {
+  /**
+   * The name of the HTML tag
+   */
+  tagName: string;
+
+  /**
+   * The attributes on the HTML tag
+   */
+  attributes?: {
+    [key: string]: string;
+  };
+}
+
+export interface RegExThemeConfig extends NamedThemeConfig {
+  regex: string;
+}
+
+export interface HandleThemeConfig extends NamedThemeConfig {
+  handle: string;
+}
+
+export interface UUIDThemeConfig extends NamedThemeConfig {
+  uuid: string;
+}
+
+export type ThemeConfig
+  = NamedThemeConfig
+  | RegExThemeConfig
+  | HandleThemeConfig
+  | UUIDThemeConfig;
diff --git a/src/config/theme.model.spec.ts b/src/config/theme.model.spec.ts
index d5005cb2457..de2e2f7cef6 100644
--- a/src/config/theme.model.spec.ts
+++ b/src/config/theme.model.spec.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { HandleTheme, RegExTheme, Theme, UUIDTheme } from './theme.model';
+import { HandleTheme, RegExTheme, Theme, UUIDTheme } from '../app/shared/theme-support/theme.model';
 import { getCommunityModuleRoute } from '../app/community-page/community-page-routing-paths';
 import { Community } from '../app/core/shared/community.model';
 import { COMMUNITY } from '../app/core/shared/community.resource-type';