Nikki Fox

Nikki Fox (born 3 March 1980

Fox was born with muscular dystrophy and has used a wheelchair for the majority of her adult life.

Career Nikki Fox has a B.A. (Hons) in music from Brunel University and has studied music theory, piano, opera, composition, analysis and criticism of 20th-century music.

She began working at BBC Radio Cambridgeshire on the Peterborough Breakfast Show, presenting Fox's What's On Guide, as well as competitions and she then won a place on a Channel 4 Disability Researcher Training Scheme and started working at Maverick TV, Channel 4 and ITV. In 2010, Nikki was a researcher and co-presenter on Gok Wan's How to Look Good Naked with a Disability, a Channel 4 show.

She has been nominated for Best On Screen talent at the Cultural Diversity Network Awards in 2010. Fox researched and presented a major documentary for BBC Radio 5 Live, Beyond Disability: The Adventures of a Blue Badger where she set out to discover what it is really like being disabled in the UK in 2012. It won a Sony accolade and the 2012 New York Festivals Radio Programme and Promotion Awards. Fox said: "I am beyond excited to be joining BBC News and am thrilled to be able to work as part of a specialist team of journalists, dedicated to the reporting of disability issues for a national audience, in a new and fresh way."

In 2015 she won a New York Festival Radio Award for Learning to Walk Again'', a radio programme she presented for BBC Radio 5 Live.

In 2016, she was awarded as Journalist of the Year at the 2016 European Diversity Awards.